LANCASTER – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lancaster Station will be conducting a DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint at an undisclosed location in Lancaster on Friday, August 1, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Deputies will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint for signs of alcohol impairment. Deputies will also check for proper licensing and will strive to delay motorists only momentarily. When possible, specially trained officers will be available to evaluate those suspected of drug-impaired driving. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, other expenses that can exceed $10,000.
Checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence and provide the greatest safety for officers and the public. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while also yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent.
Funding for the checkpoint is provided to Lancaster Sheriff’s Station by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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AV-where being treated like a criminal is a way of life. says
The same cop looking for a reason to bust you down on Saturday night will be at the bar on Sunday tossing back the brews and driving home. That’s how cops roll.
Z says
We get it. You’re bitter at the police. How many times are you going to post the same thing on whatever story there is involving police?
AV [removed] says
Every single day for the rest of my life. Bashing AV is something that never gets old. Thank the Lord I am moving away from here soon, and once I’m gone I will still reserve some energy to bash this shothole.
Eric says
Departments are fast getting militarized. Civil rights are getting encroached at greater speed. By all means though, a few possible double standards concerning DUI should be the main focus.
You want to actually make a difference in the situation or just keep launching the same irrelevant gripe?
AV [removed] says
And no, I just hate cops and this hillbilly town.
William says
@AV [removed]
Hurry up and leave the Antelope Valley. Go stink up another area somewhere far away.
I bet you’ll find something to whine about wherever you go. You’re just the type.
AV sucks says
Nah, it’s just you hicks really rubbin’ people the wrong way. You ever gone out and looked, really looked at the streets in AV? DOA. A bunch of whiners sitting around crying about how bad the crime-rate is when this place is really as soft as it comes.
Kimberly Gonzalez Albright says
Perhaps it would behoove the citizens of this city to start a grassroots movement to NOT RENEW the contract with the county of Los Angeles for law enforcement services. It is possible to fire them. The city council could (with enough incentive) decide that the city should have their own city police dept. with officers who are accountable to the citizens of said city. It is increasingly apparent that the sheriff’s dept. personnel have nothing but contempt for the people that live here, the laws they are supposed to enforce and the sanctity of the judicial system. Lots of little incorporated cities in the county of L.A. have done so; Burbank, Pasadena, San Fernando etc… It is doable. The city council, undoubtedly will default to the issue of “cost effectiveness” but the reality is that you really do get what you pay for. At best the deputies are complacent and apathetic (burn outs) and at their worst they are thugs, liars, cowards, bullies and thieves and R. Rex Parris has been quoted recently as saying he is not concerned with their tactics and defends, nay encourages, their collective misconduct. Very telling as to his true agenda. Frankly an argument as to “cost effectiveness” could easily be disproven were you to factor in the cost of wages, benefits, law suits, injuries, deaths and public trust. I think they are pretty pricey to keep around.
They embarked on a particularly bizarre and just stupidly weird mission to intimidate and harass section 8 tenants to the point that the Feds were compelled to investigate the allegations. This begs the question, why? I know that seems like a bizarre and weird question to ask, but I am seriously asking why. How did it come to the attention of that band of Neanderthals to single out section 8 residents for aggression. How did they know who was a section 8 tenant and who wasn’t (the odds were really in their favor if they were just winging it, since they are [removed] to everybody) but I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume there was actual evidence to support the discrimination allegations against them. They wouldn’t just have that kind of information laying around the lunch room. Somehow they got the message that it was within the scope of their official capacity to clean the welfare recipients the hell out of Lancaster and with somebody’s blessings. Which brings me to this observation, they are receiving tax-payer money to support their occupancy in this town. They don’t seem to mind taking a hand out from the tax payers. If fact, it seems to me they epitomize the “entitlement” mentality. In the event someone decides to take offense on their behalf I really hope you will understand that since I am pro law enforcement (having worked for one of the aforementioned dept.’s for many years) I take personal offense on behalf of officers who do not plant evidence, steal evidence, shoot now, ask questions later, gang bang mentally challenged people, insult victims, goose step on constitutional rights, falsify official documents as well as their testimony, threaten onlookers or drive under the influence WHILE ON DUTY. Good police officers, do not ignore bad police officers. Good police officers understand the pitfalls and internal struggles, challenges to maintain integrity, lack of appreciation, loss of family time, exhaustion and do their job anyway. A very dangerous job that not just anybody can do. Bad officers make targets out of good officers and that should be sufficient reason for law enforcement agencies to hold officers to a higher standard for professional conduct. Ironically, less brutality and more ethical behavior tends to make the community more cooperative with police officers as a rule. Yup, I put my real name up there. I don’t feel the need to put my hand over my name tag…… That my friends is real freedom.
AV-all bad all the time says
Good police officers are like Bigfoot-everybody has heard of them, but nobody has actually seen one in life.