PALMDALE – Two people were arrested for driving under the influence and 11 drivers were arrested for other violations at a DUI/ driver’s license checkpoint in Palmdale this past weekend, authorities said.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Traffic Services Detail, in conjunction with Palmdale Sheriff’s Station, conducted the checkpoint from 6 p.m. Friday, July 20, to 2 a.m. Saturday, July 21, in the northbound lanes of 10th Street West and Avenue M-14, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
The results of the checkpoint are as follows:
- 1308 vehicles were screened at the checkpoint.
- Two motorists were arrested for DUI-alcohol and/or drugs.
- Eight drivers were cited/arrested for operating a vehicle unlicensed or while suspended/revoked.
- One person was arrested for allowing an unlicensed person to operate a motor vehicle.
- Two drivers were cited/arrested for operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock device.
- Five vehicles were released per DUI/CDL checkpoint release procedure.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting additional DUI/driver’s license checkpoints and DUI saturation patrols throughout the year as part of an ongoing commitment to lowering deaths and injuries upon streets and highways.
Funding for these operations is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Tricia says
I think people who drink and drive should be charged with attempted murder not just the DUI. My brother almost lost his life because of a drunk driver he was hit walking back to his girlfriend’s house on November 29th 2013 after he was struck by this young man whom didn’t have a driver’s license so freakin trashed he left him to die . My brother will never be able to marry of have kids. The Hispanic kid only got 61/2 years he is now out he is married. Its proven Hispanic drivers cause more DUI crashes every year than anyone else also a lot lack insurance my brother got $15000 from the kids dad car insurance. My brothers hospital was 500,000 .. here is something for you think about.
Tim Scott says
Here’s something to think about.
Since more people are killed by unimpaired drivers than by drunk drivers maybe we should just arrest everyone who applies for a driver’s license.
Tbundy says
and even more people yet are killed by drivers texting
Ron says
So what. Sheriff keeps drunks off the road. If 1 life is saved it’s worth it. Thank you AV sheriff!!!!,
Tim Scott says
Hey, let’s have the sheriff kick Ron’s door in without a warrant! “If 1 life is saved” he should be okay with it.
Or how about we just throw him in prison without a trial. “If 1 life is saved” he should be okay with it.
Or maybe we should force him to convert to a state religion. Why not Ron? As long as it might save lives you aren’t interested in any silly constitutional rights, correct?
Buffoon.
Linda says
In America, you don’t need checkpoints. You can otherwise enjoy civil liberties, walk down the street in a peaceful, tranquil society of educated, thoughtful fellow citizens. Oh no-no-no you don’t, not here In the sanctuary city of Mexifornia. These people here can’t fathom social responsibility, much less handle the level of citizenship prerequisite to democracy, and civil liberty. Here in Mexifornia, these people are mindless savages, drunk all the time, who steal anything which isn’t nailed down. You have no choice, you have to have checkpoints, ICE, license plate scanners, cameras perched on every street sign, and a fully militarized police with itchy trigger fingers who shoot first, ask questions later. Your car insurance premiums in Mexifornia are twice what they are, here in America.
Grams says
Linda sweetie…. I feel sorry for you such a miserable individual , your hate will consume you it is eating at you I can almost feel it , you need to seek help for your sanity and those around you, Peace!
Grams says
Seek help your hate is showing. If youre not happy here in California MOVE the sooner the better!
I see what you see says
R U married Linda?
Awesome post and I concur!
Linda says
… free as a bird. Darlin’
Roly says
No gentle way of putting this, you can’t have liberty our Founding Fathers aspired to, in a sanctuary city with different rules for different people. Linda is quite right. In the sanctuary city of Mexifornia, 99% of its lawless, hit-‘n-run Latinos inebriated 99.9% of the time, I’m sorry, you can’t have a free society. You have to have sobriety checkpoints.
Ronald says
People generally have no problem with DUI enforcement. What they do have a problem with is, law enforcement using it as pretext, to impinge upon our fundamental constitutional rights. Clearly evident, these checkpoints LASD springs upon us are not DUI enforcement mechanisms.
Tim Scott says
The interesting thing is that under the current justice department the LASD has gotten so comfortable that they can get away unchallenged that IN THEIR OWN PRESS RELEASE they use the term “driver’s license checkpoint.” That SHOULD be a sufficient red flag to have the ACLU and the feds go straight down their throats, but with Jeff Sessions as AG they probably got a pat on their authoritarian backs and a “good job.”
For those who don’t keep up, a DUI checkpoint has been ruled to be “worth the cost” of being a violation of rights, as the public good is served by removal of impaired drivers. That ruling has been perverted with “well, we just CAN’T have people pass through the checkpoint without also checking documentation because…ummmm…well…because we just can’t.” So what was intended as a minor infringement of rights to protect the public against impaired drivers has turned into a fundraiser document check. But until now that repurposing was kept “on the down low” by law enforcement.
Laura says
It isn’t the checkpoints, per se, I object to. What I object to in particular is, LASD, making no attempt whatsoever walking on eggshells. To the contrary, LASD deliberately pushes the envelope, imposing these checkpoints in a manner amplifying and magnifying the greatest possible infringement to our 4th amendment guarantee, for as many people as they can possibly impinge. What I object to most is, LASD’s wanton disregard for the principles our nation was founded upon. LASD could care less, about thing but their own bureaucracy.
Mr. Happy Go Lucky says
I will be honest, I have called the Sheriff on more than a few people, a couple of weeks back one dude walked into the liquor store right next to the restaurant I was eating at, he came out with a tall can…opened it and started drinking it as he was driving, he didn’t see the deputy parked a couple of tracts away…i signaled him to go after him and BAMM, sited for open container, car taken away LOL, zero sympathy. My mother was almost was hit by a drunk driver when I was a kid, and I was traumatized by that…whether you’re drunk, buzzed or high, you don’t belong behind the wheel, and you deserve all that is coming to you.
Jeffery says
Enjoy what’s left of your liberty, while you still can. In just another couple years, you won’t have a 4th amendment guarantee. Law enforcement will no longer need warrants. They won’t bother knocking. No rhyme or reason, they’ll just kick down your door. Give ‘um any lip, you’ll get a nightstick upside your head.
Micah says
Once your 4th amendment is gone, next will be your 2nd, then finally your 1st. Here’s bidding you a warm welcome, to the East Germany of 21st Century!
Dr. Bryon says
Falls into 4 general categories, everything on planet Earth wants to kill you, eat you, screw you, or humiliate you. These LASD checkpoints are no different from what everything else on this planet would otherwise love doing to you. And, you can bank on that.
Laughing says
Been hearing that since 1986.
Tim Scott says
@Jeffrey, who stated: “Enjoy what’s left of your liberty, while you still can. In just another couple years, you won’t have a 4th amendment guarantee. Law enforcement will no longer need warrants. They won’t bother knocking. No rhyme or reason, they’ll just kick down your door. Give ‘um any lip, you’ll get a nightstick upside your head.”
What do you base your simplistic, nonsensical opinion on?
SCOTUS has ruled that DUI checkpoint are legal and do not violate your 4th amendment, and that was back in 1990.
And you can get a nightstick upside your head now if you “give ‘um any lip” but that doesn’t mean your 4th amendment rights are lost!
free driver's license or no says
I like to know the percentage of the people arrested for DUI and no license I will say 99% out of 100 will be immigrants
Laughing says
Or white boys, or youth that thought they could get by without a license.
Would be nice if the demographics data were available.
(Bet you came from immigrants)
Tim Scott says
@”free driver’s license or no” who said: “I like to know the percentage of the people arrested for DUI and no license I will say 99% out of 100 will be immigrants”
Are you an American Indian?
If not then you too are an “immigrant”!
(Either way, you are an imbecile. Which is why that is too complicated for you to understand)
Keep on hatin’ though…
AV Illegal says
If you want the demographics on cites or checkpoints, go ask. The local station can pull up the demographics easily on citations and DUI arrests. Last I checked (2015) the citation demographics followed almost exactly with the demographics of the city. The unlicensed driver portion was higher for Hispanics, but those without citizenship couldn’t obtain a license and chose to drive anyway.
If the checkpoint results we keep seeing are any indication, that new law allowing non citizens get licenses has changed nothing. There are still on average 10 with no license caught in the checkpoint. I bet the numbers compared from 2015 to 2018 for unlicensed drivers has either remained the same or got higher according to the citation data.
Tim Scott says
Wow…someone claiming to be me said something that I genuinely might have said, and with proper spelling and punctuation! Good job, whoever you are!
Karla says
It’s the money. Traffic ticket revenue, the courts want the money. But, for LASD, it’s something else, entirely. The only reason LASD sets-up these Soviet style checkpoints is, to peck-peck-peck away at your founding Father’s 4th amendment privilege. There is nothing on God’s green acre law enforcement collectively detest more, than your 4th amendment privilege. LASD prides itself as the principle bureaucracy taking it upon themselves, to winnowing that away. Were it up to LASD officers, they’d be meting out roadside corporal punishment over minor traffic infractions.
Georgia says
Brave new world, these roadside checkpoints constitute an ominous dystrophic prelude of what’s soon to come.
Laughing says
Been happening since 1986, since 1986 some people have prophesied about ominous dystophic events.
Has not happened yet.
Tim Scott says
It hasn’t?
I would say that someone transported direct from 1986 to current day America would consider the decline in civil liberties to be pretty dystopian. Not saying that law enforcement’s exploitation of DUI checkpoints is fully or even significantly responsible for that.
In 1986, I was defending the US in the military. Currently I am preparing an emigration plan and hoping the US collapses completely as that is the only way I can feel like I am safely beyond its reach.
Laughing says
I was also serving in 1986. Your answer is the losers way out. Patriots stand in place against all enemies from outside and within our borders. Right now in history we have a huge population of enemies from within, many posing as ‘True Patriots’ and ‘MAGA’.
I have not seen any of my civil liberties taken away. As far as I can tell, based on my court history as well, all of my constitutional rights are still there.
Tim Scott says
Gotta allow the people to have what they want, and Trump’s racist nationalism is what they want.
But I don’t have to stay and be part of it. I also don’t have to wish them well with the consequences of their choices.
Alexis says
“Big Brother is watching you.” George Orwell 1984
Bethie says
… theory of bureaucratic behavior, this has nothing to do public safety. LASD has its own reasons for these checkpoints. LASD has its own special reasons for arbitrarily screening motorists –
AV Illegal says
Not that special….State and Federal grant monies and overtime. It is more of a public show. It is more visible, but less effective than just driving around looking for an impaired driver. Grants pay for DUI patrols also, but if you want the grant money, you must do a mandated number of checkpoints each year.
Good Answer says
AV Illegal is spot on….
They are just making a showing, so they can get the money.
Law enforcement sees very little if any from traffic violation revenue. But when the feds say “grant” their eyes perk up and their hands open up… It supports their payroll and offers a few officers some OT hours.
Laughing says
Statements like yours Bethie need to have the reasons listed since you seem to know of this secret agenda. Enlighten us with the facts.
Roger says
If you decide for yourself you’re endowed a 4th amendment constitutional guarantee? And, decide you don’t want to be pulled over at the illegal Soviet style checkpoint? LASD enjoys Carte Blanche, to pump as many caps into you as they can for their amusement and merriment, and gun you down like a dog. And, they’ve got the television newsies angled just right, to make it all your fault.
You Should Know that... says
@Bethie: LASD doesn’t need DUI checkpoints to scrutinize every single vehicle that is on the road, 24/7/365…
And not only do they run plates of every single vehicle they pass, but they also log time, date and location of where that vehicle was spotted. All while all this information is collected and archived with very little action by deputies.
How? You may ask? License plate readers… That is how. So the info is collected while LASDs cruisers patrol the streets. Once that deputy’s shift is over, his cruiser goes back to the station, the cruiser’s on-board computer that had worked tirelessly to collect all that information will now log on to the main system, it automatically will upload all the information it collected which gets stored in one big huge database.
The other way the system works though, is while it is actively capturing license plate numbers and location information, it is also running license plate checks, registered owner info and registered owner driving record. If any said records are suspended, revoked or otherwise wanted, a vehicle description and an image showing the location it was last spotted is immediately displayed on the deputy’s MDT… Within seconds, that deputy can be on that vehicle’s bumper trying to establish who is driving and how soon should they light him/her up and pull them over.
LAPD uses this same system. And so does the CHP and many other LEA nationwide!