The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department conducted the checkpoint from 6 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, to 2 a.m. Friday, Sept. 2, at eastbound Avenue K near Elm Avenue.
According to a news release from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station, 10 people were arrested for driving unlicensed or with a suspended license, and two were arrested for driving without an ignition interlock device. Sheriff’s officials said 981 vehicles were contacted at the checkpoint.
DUI checkpoint locations are determined based on reported incidents of impaired driving-related crashes. The primary purpose of DUI checkpoints is to promote public safety by taking suspected impaired drivers off the roads.
Funding for this checkpoint was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
You're doing it wrong says
The drunks (especially the invaders) punch out between 4-8 AM the next morning.
Be careful out there, they don’t drive drunk but completely annihilated!
ACE says
BUT LOTS OF YUMMY DONUTS WERE CONSUMED…
AND A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL…
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BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME BRAVE DEPUTIES…
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Angela says
Your a dick! Thank you deputies for keeping us safe.
Tim Scott says
There is nothing about these checkpoints that shows any intent to “keep us safe.” They are strictly about taking federal grant money that has very tight restrictions on how it can be spent and using it to fund an operation that raises fines for the general fund. Meanwhile the deputies get kickbacks from the towing companies that get the impounds and really who can blame them? When you use people in an operation that is big money corrupt they are gonna think that running a lower level side scam of their own is only fair.
Stinger says
“Meanwhile the deputies get kickbacks from the towing companies that get the impounds and really who can blame them?”
That is an unsupported accusation that requires evidence, Tim.
Tim Scott says
Anecdotal, but you should go visit an impound auction sometime and see who is there bidding. Relationships between deputies and towing operators are EXTREMELY cozy.