Our Say:Traffic law repeat offenders get too many chances

Last week's arrest of a 55-year-old named Richard S. Dorsey was not, in itself, a big deal.

But it brings up a recurrent, maddening frustration: This state's failure to do anything serious to punish reckless, and sometimes drunken, drivers who just keep motoring away, frequently without licenses. They are usually treated as nuisances; when they bother to show up for their court dates at all, they are just yanked in one door of the judicial system and shoved out another. This goes on year in and year out - unless they kill someone.

Mr. Dorsey was pulled over for speeding Tuesday evening on Clay Street in Annapolis. A...