San Diego DUI Checkpoints - Sobriety Patrols
LABOR DAY DUI CHECKPOINT ALERTS - 2007
So far, the CHP reports nine fatalities statewide as of Friday, August 31st, 2007. They did not disclose whether any if the accidents were alcohol related. So far for Labor Day weekend 2007, alcohol related incidents are said to be down 20% from Labor Day 2006.
San Diego County had 25 people arrested by the CHP for driving drunk, compared to 30 arrests in 2006. CHP patrols urban freeways and roads in unincorporated areas, local police agencies handle arrests in their own cities.
The Escondido Police Department will have a dual-purpose checkpoint tonight, hunting down impaired and unlicensed drivers. The location is “for drivers to find out when they get there,” a dispatcher with the Escondido Police Department said.
The Chula Vista Police Department disclosed plans to enforce a strict "Zero Tolerance" policy this weekend, and throughout the year.
The Sheriff's Department has allocated 30 patrol units to to scout for drunk drivers as a result from a grant intended to fund more Saturation Patrols and finance overtime for deputies involved in DUI enforcement.
Checkpoints & Roadblocks as a Way or Life?
California's Office of Traffic Safety very generously funds & sponsors DUI Checkpoints & saturation patrols in San Diego County. OTS works closely with the NationaL Highway Safety Administration, well known for promoting Field Sobriety Testing and nationwide ANTI-DUI campaigns, along with
Madd (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). Financial perks in the form of grants & special funding have long lured the City of San Diego (employer of San Diego Police Officers), and others California muncipalities, to comply with increasingly stricter and more oppressive BAC laws, more aggressive enforcement, and harsher punishment for offenders.
DUI enforcement in San Diego is a money making pursuit for some organizations who reap a steady flow of persuasive cash, which in turn fuels stricter and more oppressive laws, further eroding our Constitutional rights, and the criminalizing everyday citizens. Gradually, we've become a society that accepts anonymous phone calls to police as justifiable probable cause, we've passively submitted to invasive search and seizure tactics in the name of safety and the "war" on terrorism. Police are now routinely allowed to search our property, our persons, force bodily fluids from us in the form of blood if they are suspicious, and set up roadblocks to "check" check our breath. Our prisons are getting bigger and more crowded, and are many times managed by private organizations with a conflicting interest in the prioner release - job security and overtime.
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