LAPD Announce DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint

**kawasaki2008** · 07-29-2010 03:48 AM

LAPD Announce DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint NA10196gb

What:
Sobriety & Drivers License Checkpoint

When:
Saturday, July 31, 2010
8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Where:
Cahuenga Boulevard West at Broadlawn Drive
North Hollywood, California

Who:
Emergency Operations Division

Why:
The LAPD is continuing its efforts at lowering the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes locally and through the county’s Avoid DUI Task Force Campaign sobriety/driver’s license checkpoint. Personnel will be checking drivers to identify offenders and get them off the street, as well as heightening awareness to the dangers of impaired driving.

The summer months are a dangerous time of the year and your odds of being involved in an alcohol involved collision can be high. In 2008 law enforcement statewide reported that 7, 801 people were injured or killed during the three summer months of June, July and August.

A major component of the checkpoints, beyond taking dangerous drivers off the road, is to increase awareness of the consequences of impaired driving and to encourage using sober designated drivers. A DUI checkpoint is a proven effective method for achieving this goal. By publicizing these enforcement and education efforts, the LAPD believes motorists are deterred from drinking and driving

The LAPD will also be partnering in this summer Avoid 100 – DUI Campaign where all law enforcement agencies will put additional officers out on checkpoints and DUI saturation patrols at the end of August/Labor Day nationwide anti-DUI effort, Over the Limit, Under Arrest!

Law enforcement encourages everyone to Report Drunk Drivers, Call 911! Funding for this operation is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Contact:
For further information, please contact Officer Don Inman, Emergency Operations Division, at 213-486-0703.

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**dmoney1988** · 07-29-2010 07:45 AM

Was this info made public. If so, why the hell would they publicly announce where the checkpoint would be located

. Any person in their right mind would just drive around the checkpoint to get where they was going

.

**Freebird** · 07-29-2010 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by dmoney1988

Was this info made public. If so, why the hell would they publicly announce where the checkpoint would be located

. Any person in their right mind would just drive around the checkpoint to get where they was going

.

They have to announce the location. They also have to make it so you can avoid the checkpoint if you decide, by placing signs well in advance of the checkpoint and allowing drivers to decide to go around (by turning off) or go thru the checkpoint. Most of the time if you turn off to avoid the checkpoint there will be motor units that pull you over to check you out anyway.

Thx for the post kawasaki 2008!

**Sector_15504** · 07-29-2010 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by dmoney1988

Was this info made public. If so, why the hell would they publicly announce where the checkpoint would be located

. Any person in their right mind would just drive around the checkpoint to get where they was going

.

If your drunk, you dont have a right mind

**mujjuman** · 07-29-2010 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by Sector_15504

Originally Posted by dmoney1988

Was this info made public. If so, why the hell would they publicly announce where the checkpoint would be located

. Any person in their right mind would just drive around the checkpoint to get where they was going

.

If your drunk, you dont have a right mind

exactly hahaha

**OpenRoad** · 07-29-2010 10:29 PM

I ran into a DUI checkpoint one night. I was towing my boat back from a camping / boating trip. The cop just waved me though - I guess he figured "who would be drunk and towing a boat?".

**statusquo** · 08-05-2010 01:12 AM

The DUI is just a smokescreen for much bigger fish.

If you watch the outcome in the following days newspaper, they get far more suspended/unlicensed/uninsured/untagged plate drivers and impounds from these checkpoints than DUI drivers. An impound can run up to $500 for a months storage along with a $100 tow at minimum. We see about 60 impounds and maybe 1-2 DUIs out of their 6 hour shift. Court makes a small fortune to on recovery and validation fees. Sheriff even expanded their impound yard.

The checkpoints may have up to 20 cops working overtime for the federal grant money (since the state is broke), a flock of tow trucks under contract with the agencies, and all sorts of lighting, tents, and coffee hut things set up (usually by the tow truck companies to secure their stake in working with the checkpoints). Even seen the cop's helicopter circling one. The result is they have fewer cops on the daytime shift so people get away with other infractions since they all volunteer for the late evening overtime shift and the differential that comes with it.

How effective are they verses the cost to run one? Don't know. But the profit motive is huge. We had a lot of tow truck companies pretesting favortism by the police at one city hall meeting. The ones that supply their food and coffee tents and lighting generators get the calls.

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**unmamfqlm** · 08-05-2010 02:24 AM

Originally Posted by statusquo

The DUI is just a smokescreen for much bigger fish.

If you watch the outcome in the following days newspaper, they get far more suspended/unlicensed/uninsured/untagged plate drivers and impounds from these checkpoints than DUI drivers. An impound can run up to $500 for a months storage along with a $100 tow at minimum. We see about 60 impounds and maybe 1-2 DUIs out of their 6 hour shift. Court makes a small fortune to on recovery and validation fees. Sheriff even expanded their impound yard.

The checkpoints may have up to 20 cops working overtime for the federal grant money (since the state is broke), a flock of tow trucks under contract with the agencies, and all sorts of lighting, tents, and coffee hut things set up (usually by the tow truck companies to secure their stake in working with the checkpoints). Even seen the cop's helicopter circling one. The result is they have fewer cops on the daytime shift so people get away with other infractions since they all volunteer for the late evening overtime shift and the differential that comes with it.

How effective are they verses the cost to run one? Don't know. But the profit motive is huge. We had a lot of tow truck companies pretesting favortism by the police at one city hall meeting. The ones that supply their food and coffee tents and lighting generators get the calls.

sq

Agreed on that one. Leo's around me are the most leniant ones you will run into, but you can bet your a** they will nab you for anything when running a "DUI checkpoint". I recieved a ticket for a tail light that was out while going through a checkpoint. I've also heard of several getting seatbelt violations, tint violations, etc. Definitely a big money maker for them.