“The goal is to ensure the safe passage of each and every motorist by targeting roads where there is a high frequency of intoxicated or unlicensed drivers,” according to a news release by the California Highway Patrol Antelope Valley Area.
“A sobriety/driver license checkpoint is a proven effective tool for achieving this goal, and is designed to augment existing patrol operations,” the CHP news release states.
The Antelope Valley checkpoint will be staffed by uniformed officers from the CHP who are trained in detecting alcohol and drug impaired drivers.Officers will be equipped with handheld blood alcohol detection devices, which provide an accurate indication of alcoholic beverage consumption.
Traffic volume permitting, all vehicles will be screened as they pass through the checkpoint.
Drivers who are determined to be under the influence will be physically arrested and their vehicles towed away. Any suspended or unlicensed drivers passing through the checkpoint will be cited and their vehicles may be impounded.
Funding for this checkpoint is provided from a grant by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
[Information via news release from the California Highway Patrol.]
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William says
I notice that all the complaining here re: checkpoints has really been effective.
Barney Fife says
This doesn’t happen in Brentwood or Beverly hills. It’s clearly a breach of our 4th Amendment right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure.
The civil rights of many are being trampled on in order to get at the few. I’m pro law enforcement, but not pro police State.
Toreano says
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1722527031098296&id=100000230482733
F_ _k AV says
Bank account confiscation checkpoints is their true intention.
SomeGuy says
Every time there is one of these checkpoints the police only catch like one drunk driver. Sometimes they don’t get any at all. I’ve driven by these checkpoints before, and I have to question the man hours that are put into them versus the return to the community. It certainly seems to me that there might be some ulterior motive in these types of checkpoints.
Molly says
You’ll never see Ponch & John, setting up their East German style checkpoints, in Beverly Hills or Bel Aire. Leona Helmsley was right. Sobriety checkpoints are only for the little people.
Keira says
They’re not sobriety checkpoints. They’re surveillance checkpoints. They’re performing surveillance.
Chelsea says
… high time we start calling a spade a spade, painfully evident, these are not (NOT) sobriety checkpoints. They’re surveillance checkpoints. Keeping tabs our comings and goings, running their license plate scanners on us, uploading directly to our local fusion center just off Imperial Highway, the surveillance detail assigned to these East German style checkpoints know well in advance who’s ripe for a shake down, from who coasts through, unmolested. It is imperative we start pushing back, against this particular strain of bureaucratic behavior –
10dog says
They should not tell this, just do it..
Tim Scott says
They just barely managed to get these “papers please” income generators bought off as constitutional by playing the ‘public good as a DUI deterrent overrides civil liberties’ card. Part of that was the claim that by PUBLICIZING the checkpoints people would be put off drinking and driving even without directly interacting with the checkpoint.
In short, the claim that this is constitutional is based on these announcements so they have to do them.