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DUI checkpoint in Lancaster this Friday

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LANCASTER – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Traffic Services Detail will be conducting a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint at an undisclosed location in Lancaster this Friday, Aug. 4, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.

Officers 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.

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.

Drivers are encouraged to download the Designated Driver VIP, or “DDVIP,” free mobile app for Android or iPhone. The DDVIP app helps find nearby bars and restaurants that feature free incentives for the designated sober driver, from free non-alcoholic drinks to free appetizers and more. The feature-packed app even has social media tie-ins and even a tab for the non-DD to call Uber, Lyft or Curb.

Funding for this operation is provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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14 comments for "DUI checkpoint in Lancaster this Friday"

  1. Recall, the girl did the math for us here, last month. Right? Figure, it’s cool US$30 thousand, minimum, for the local Michael D. Antonovich Superior Court, each time Ponch & John roll-out, on one of these 4th amendment sobriety shakedowns. Right? So, summing these “random” weekly Palmdale plus Lancaster LASD shakedowns, multiplied by an arithmetic mean of 4.3 weeks per month, times 12 months per annum, constitutes a US$3.1 million budget which LASD gifts, free-of-charge, to the local superior court. Bountiful stream of preferential treatment and special favors, quid pro quo, flowing back LASD’s way, no small wonder the bestest little buddies of the Michael D. Antonovich Superior Court are, the LASD. Visa verse, I’m certain.

    • … lavish, highly profitable bureaucratic shakedown under the guise of sobriety, theory of bureaucratic behavior rides again. More dedicated to itself than the people it was conceived to protect, incapable of ruling objectively on our basic 4th amendment principle, our intellectually bankrupt judiciary have proven themselves a garden variety, self-interest intensive bureaucracy, more preoccupied with their status, power and prestige, and their bottom-line, and are found to be lacking for reverence or regard, to constitutional principle. I’m afraid LASD can pretty much do what it wants, whenever it wants, top-down protection afforded to it by the local Michael D. Antonovich courthouse it financially supports

  2. Ever notice, how the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is always right, about everything? And, everybody else is always wrong? Ever notice, how everyone who find themselves in disagreement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is always written off, a criminal, a flake, or a headcase? Arrogance of the LASD, their attitude is, if you’re against their 4th amendment surveillance shakedowns, under pretense of sobriety, then you must be for the terrorists.

    • People fight traffic tickets and infractions written by the sheriffs department and other police departments all the time and win. Again, everybody is entitled to their day in court.

      I’ve sat in many traffic courts before and can’t tell you how many times people want to plead guilty, but with a reason or give an explanation as to why they should be justified in breaking the law.

      • I’ve sat in traffic court and watched a deputy commit perjury rather than give up a conviction on a traffic ticket. If that guy sells the truth and his own word that cheaply what WOULDN’T he lie about?

  3. Driving is a privilege not a right, but even the complainers know this. In order to have the privilege you must follow motor vehicle laws. That is not “unreasonable”. As someone who has lost two innocent people to drunk drivers, I sincerely thank the Sheriff department for getting impaired and unauthorized drivers off the road.

    • There is no legal or historic precedent, for any of this. 3000 years ago, CHP wasn’t interdicting speedster camel jockeys, shaking down caravans crossing the Sahara. Denote, before existence of the Michael D. Antonovich Superior Courthouse? The entire Antelope Valley was a free society, wholly devoid LASD’s 4th amendment surveillance shakedowns –

      • One could only speculate on the relationship 3000 years ago (!) between the California Hwy Patrol (no California, and no highway to patrol) and camel jockeys in the Sahara (another continent).

        I totally get why you don’t want anyone to run a field sobriety test on you. Seek help soon please.

        • … page two, straight out of LASD’s bureaucratic playbook, finding themselves lacking intellectual wherewithal to sufficiently argue the issue, ad hominem (e.g., write you off as a headcase).

          • Oh please. I have no affiliation with the LASD, period. As I stated previously I had two people close to me KILLED by DUI drivers, in two separate incidents. That’s enough of a reason to be supportive of keeping impaired drivers off the road. If you want to argue an issue, you have to make a coherent statement. If you don’t want to be written off as a headcase, don’t act like one. I’ve had enough nonsense for one day – have fun chatting amongst yourselves about how much law enforcement sucks. (If there is indeed more than one of you – funny how the names change and the “voice’ remains the same.) Later.

      • Melanie, there was a courthouse in Lancaster before the current one, and there was one before that.
        If you want to be free, and rule your own country, use this here internet thingy and look up how to form your own country. A few others have done so with various levels of success.

  4. … mindlessly using America’s Constitution as toilet paper, the LASD bureaucracy run amok, with yet another brazen, egregious violation of our Founding Fathers’ Fourth Amendment guarantee –

    • Without LASD’s weekly 4th amendment shakedowns? Biggest courthouse in Los Angeles County would list 20 degrees before floundering belly up, overnight. Washing each others backs, covering for each other, bestest little buddies of the Michael D. Antonovich Superior Courthouse, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department, bends over backward, twisting our Founding Fathers’ constitution inside-out, keeping that poor excuse of a courthouse in business, making its payroll.