LANCASTER – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint at an undisclosed location in Lancaster this Friday, Aug. 14, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Deputies will be looking for signs of alcohol and drug impairment. They also will 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.
Recent statistics reveal that 30 percent of drivers in fatal crashes had one or more drugs in their systems. A study of active drivers showed more tested positive for drugs that may impair driving (14 percent) than did for alcohol (7.3 percent). Of the drugs, marijuana was most prevalent, at 7.4 percent, slightly more than alcohol.
Drivers caught driving impaired can expect the impact of a DUI arrest to include jail time, fines, fees, DUI classes, and other expenses that can exceed $10,000.
DUI checkpoints are placed in locations based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, affording the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence. Locations are chosen with safety considerations for the officers and the public.
Funding for these operations is provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
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Lulu says
They act like they care about drunk drivers but they don’t. A few weeks ago on Ave O and 145th I was almost hit head on by a drunk driver if my fiancé would have reacted a second later we would have hit. He was beyond drunk stopping on the middle of the streets. I called 911 in which they transferred me to chp I told them what happen and explained that the guy was on the side of the road. He was so drunk he knocked out over 40 minutes later I pass by and he is still there. I’m thinking okay it’s fair maybe it will take a while. So I go back and check over two hours the guy is still there awake at this point and it was looking like he was about to start driving again so I called the sheriff directly told them I had reported and no one showed up told them his exact location and all she did was put me on hold for like 15 min and then say okay we will go check him out. The next morning the same guy in the same truck was still parked on the side of the road but he had moved locations of where he was parked. So he did drive again. How are we suppose to feel safe with drunk drivers if they don’t do anything. Then they say report them we will do checkpoints to catch them but they don’t even care!!
A New Day in America says
Lulu next time say the Driver looks Black they will show up 8 minutes i guarantee you..
A New Day in America says
OK Mr IQchecker the Waze app was created by three software engineers from Israel Uri Levine Ehud Shabtai Amir Shinar. And the sold to Google for 1.1 BILLION Dollars…… Lol and you’re running around checking people IQ… You may want to change that name.
AVSUX says
Half these pigs working the checkpoint on Friday will be driving to the bar on Saturday to suck back the drinks secure in their knowledge that they will never be arrested. Criminal charges are for the proles, and cops exist to protect the status quo they are members of. Hypocrite scum.
A New Day in America says
Download WAZE navigation app. 50 million members the app allow you to post icons of Traffic jams Accident and location of Police….. 50 million eyes all on them in real time.Lol
IQchecker says
I sure hope you aren’t allowed to reproduce. And when the parolee is trying to break into your house I guarantee you will pick up the phone and call 911.
Tim Scott says
This is exactly the kind of nonsensical response that supporters of the cops invariably come up with. How desperate are you to score a few points with the badged thugs?
For the record, the odds of “the parolee trying to break into your house” are so close to zero that this comment may as well have been about butterflies erupting out of your ears.
Uncle Tom says
This is exactly the kind of nonsensical response that haters of the cops invariably come up with. How desperate are you to score a few points with the criminal thugs?
For the record, the odds of “the cops trying to harass, assault and/or arrest you” are so close to zero (unless your caught breaking the law) that this comment may as well have been about butterflies erupting out of your ears.
Tony says
Thank you Uncle Tom!
This a great response to all those cop haters.
All the time crying and complainting about the cops and always in the criminals side.
Criminals dedending criminals that all there is!
Tim Scott says
Anecdotally, I’ve never had a parolee, or anyone else try to break into my house, but have been harassed by the cops three different times.
Based on family and friends, that seems to be about the norm. I don’t actually know anyone who has had their home invaded, but I know plenty of people who have been harassed by the cops.
Your response, while clever, seems inaccurate.
AVSUX says
That doesn’t make cops any less hypocrite trash whom build careers out of incarcerating and destroying other people for the same crimes they commit on the regular. The only good cop is…
Uncle Tom says
RE: Tim
My comment is no less inaccurate than your own, hence why it was made. I’ve had my own run in’s with the law, but as soon as I stopped following the rule of 4 S’s(Doing stupid stuff, at stupid times, with stupid people, in stupid places), what might be termed ‘negative run ins’ stopped. Now I’m not saying its not entirely possible to have some negative interaction with law enforcement in the future, but history has shown me how to avoid the vast majority of reasons why any LEO has a need to interact with me in anything but a positive way. In fact, I have had far more crimes committed against me than I have had negative interactions with any LEO regardless of the reason. So for me I have far more of a reason to think about criminals ruining my day than any LEO causing me trouble.
Now I can’t speak for you or your past, or the history of those around you, so your opinions are just that. But to continue to blatantly lump all LEO’s into the trash because of some bad apples is just BS.
I can pick any particular group and find a reason to hate them based on the actions of a minority of its members. But that’s a pretty stupid way to judge a group of people.
If you have had, and people around you have had, such a large amount of negative interaction with cops, perhaps the common denominator is staring back at you in the mirror?
The VAST majority of the people I know of many ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds have very little bad to say about LEO. What little they do is because they ‘heard’ of something that happened to somebody else, not because of anything that has happened directly to them. The few people who I know that follow the ‘hoodlum’ lifestyle are the ones with all the negative crap to say. As soon as I stopped hanging with those, my problems with LEO stopped. Just saying.
Tim Scott says
I never said all cops are alike.
There are the ones who take the badge as a license to work out their frustrations by bullying people without having to worry about any consequences, and there are their ‘brother officers’ who pat themselves on the back for being “good cops” by comparison to the ones they do nothing to stop.
Not an idiot says
Tim Scott is a Law Enforcement hater. He said he has had been harassed by cops three different times. Wow what caused that. I’ve never been harassed, not even one time. I have had relatives who have their homes broken into. I’ve had my car stolen. But no cop run ins! Tim if your attracting cops your doing something wrong.
Tim Scott says
Since you asked…
I was a manager at a truck fuel stop. The local cowboys blocked off our access playing cops and robbers on company property. Since I was responsible for being able to tell the owners of this multi million dollar enterprise why our pumps were not converting diesel fuel into profits I went out to find out what was going on. Some punk with a badge and a gun got snotty with me and I told him and another badge wearer that given that approach I was calling them trespassers and they could get the hell off the property and stop interfering with our business, and started hollering for whoever was in charge of this band of marauders. My boss got paid off for the lost business in a settlement.
I had a handyman business. I dropped a guy off at one job that was two blocks away from another, expecting that he would get both jobs done while I worked another job. He got harassed for over an hour, apparently for suspicious walking. I rolled up after finding that he had never arrived at the second job site. The cops had absolutely no justification for having detained my guy. I lost two accounts because people had driven by and seen my guy surrounded by cops and fearmongered themselves. When I told a desk officer that I expected an apology, in writing, that I could show any other customers who had concerns I was told that selective enforcement against my trucks should be a bigger concern for me.
I had a cop pull a gun on me because I didn’t like him. I was unarmed, and he had already acknowledged that I had committed no crime, was not a suspect in any crime that he was aware of, and that he had no justification for detaining me. When he said that “these people have reason to be afraid of you, I am protecting them” I pointed out that if they were afraid of anyone it would probably be the guy who pulls out a gun to settle minor disagreements in a parking lot with citizens he is supposed to be protecting. As the bystanders were applauding I suggested that they start recording if any of them had cell phones and weren’t too scared of this badged up armed thug. Fortunately a couple of them did and he drove off. Again, when I reported him I was told that I should consider the possibility of selective enforcement and asked how many traffic tickets i could afford to pay.
William says
After reading many of the back and forth comments/replies with Tim Scott and others going at it, I’ve concluded 1 thing.
Whoever you are, it only takes 1 bad encounter with a cop to ruin the reputation of an entire department, especially if the other cops and those in the justice system don’t ‘police’ their own.
That goes with many other things as well.
We have seen recently in this country how police departments are very lax about weeding out bad cops and then wondering why the public has such a negative attitude towards them.
It’s the same thing if a hospital were to ignore the bad behavior of one of their doctors or a city to ignore the bad behavior of its obnoxious mayor.
The last example shows how a lousy mayor can cause a whole city to have its reputation ruined.
But we’re talking law enforcement and it has become apparent that there is a pattern of departments protecting their own and having their reputations damaged in the process.
Remember those cops who turned their backs on New York’s mayor AT A FUNERAL. That said a lot and I’m sure that mentality isn’t a one-off situation.
On the other hand, I’ve recently had a very good experience with a CHP who pulled me over for speeding. That left me with a positive impression.
Law enforcement has had so many bad things happen lately that they really need to work on their PR and discipline and get rid of the bad cops or the situation will never improve.