Norwalk Checkpoint Results; This Weekend's Riverside, I.E. Checkpoints

(Before It's News)

Everything went according to plan at last weekend’s DUI Checkpoint in Norwalk, reports the Los Cerritos News. Drunk and drugged drivers were arrested, unlicensed drivers were ticketed, and cars were impounded and towed.

In other words, the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign is working, right?

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Let’s look at the numbers for the Norwalk’s August 25th checkpoint:

• 2590 Vehicles through the Checkpoint
• 1910 Drivers Checked at the Checkpoint
• 2 DUI – Alcohol Suspects Arrested
• 2 DUI – Drug (Marijuana) Suspects Arrested
• 1 DUI – Combo (Alcohol and Sleeping Pills) Suspect Arrested
• 1 Allowing Person to Drive Vehicle without a Valid License Suspects Arrested
• 2 Suspended Drivers were Arrested and Sent to Court
• 11 Unlicensed Drivers were Arrested and Sent to Court
• 2 Vehicles were Impounded for 30 Days
• 10 Vehicles were Stored for 1 Day
• 5 Vehicles were released to the Registered Owner pursuant Checkpoint Release Procedures.

If the point of the checkpoint is to catch impaired drivers, that’s five out of 2,590. That is a 0.19% success rate.

Still, we can’t be too short-sighted. Checkpoints are lauded for their deterrant effect, not their actual arrest numbers.

In any case, don’t be like the Norwalk Five. Here are the Riverside checkpoints for the weekend, courtesy of @CheckpointsDUI. Get a sober driver.

Friday, August 31st

DUI Checkpoints – Beaumont, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Riverside, Temecula, Coachella (6 p.m. – 2 a.m.), Chino (7 p.m. – morning), Moreno Valley (8:30 p.m. – 2:30 a.m), and Perris (6 p.m. – 2 a.m.)

DUI Saturation Patrol – Coachella, La Quinta, Lake Elsinore, Lake Perris, Murrieta and San Jacinto

Saturday, September 1st

DUI Checkpoints – Blythe, Temecula, Eastvale (8 p.m. to 3 a.m in Jurupa Valley)

DUI Saturation Patrol – Corona, Hemet, Indian Wells, Lake Perris, Palm Desert and Riverside

Sunday, September 2nd 2012

DUI Saturation Patrol – Perris, Moreno Valley and Riverside

Monday, September 3rd

DUI Saturation Patrol – Riverside

Related Resources:

• Discuss Your Case With a Los Angeles, Riverside, or Inland Empire DUI Attorney (FindLaw)
• Bishop Cordileone’s DUI; Los Angeles Labor Day Weekend Checkpoints (FindLaw’s Los Angeles DUI Blog)
• 25 Years Later: Ingersoll v. Palmer’s Checkpoint Guidelines (FindLaw’s Los Angeles DUI Blog)
• Field Sobriety Tests: Do I Have To? Should I? (FindLaw’s Los Angeles DUI Blog)

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