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DUI Checkpoint in Lancaster this Friday

by The AV Times Staff • June 5, 2014

LANCASTER – The Sheriff’s Department’s Lancaster Station will be conducting a DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint at an undisclosed location in Lancaster on Friday, June 6, from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Deputies will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. Deputies will also check drivers 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 jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, other expenses that can exceed $10,000.

The deterrent effect of DUI checkpoints is a proven resource in reducing the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug involved crashes. Research shows that crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while also yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent. Based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, DUI Checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence. Locations are chosen with safety considerations for the officers and the public.

Funding for the checkpoint is provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Lancaster

10 comments for "DUI Checkpoint in Lancaster this Friday"

  1. Shane says

    June 25, 2014 at 9:01 am

    These check points are actually illegal search and seizure stops. Just so you guys know, you have rights. Contrary to popular belief, law enforcement officials have no right to ask you for your identification if you have not committed a crime. The only thing you are required by law to do at a checkpoint is to stop where legally posted, until you are waved thru, this is called implied consent to stop. This is the o my thing you are obligated to do as an American law obiding citizen to do. In this country you have a constitutional “right to travel” unimpeded, providing you are no breaking any laws. You have a right to refuse to answer any questions these so called “officials” ask you. It’s called the 5th amendment to the bill of rights. As I have also said you may refuse to show your identification if you have not committed a crime or broken any laws. They, under no circumstances, can detain you for this. THESE ARE YOUR CONSTUTIONAL RIGHTS. if you do not exercise them you will lose them. By law, these “officials” are to clearly post a check point so many feet back from the actual stop, so that you may detour if you so wish to. This is because these checkpoints ARE COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY. DO NOT LET ANYONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE. In simplistic terms this is entrapment by law enforcement officials which is also illegal. These checkpoints take thousands and thousands of taxpayers dollars to be set up and maintained. They solve nothing and strip your rights from you. Man power, man hours are wasted at these checkpoints, when those same hours could go toward catching actual DUIs and not just waiting for them to pass thru. People are smart and network to avoid these checkpoints at all costs. In no way am I advocating drunk driving, but I am advocating your rights as citizens of the United States. I am a former military service members and have fought to defend our Constitution from ALL enemys, foreign and DOMESTIC and I still believe in that oath I took, which is an oath all of these law enforcement officials took as well. History has shown if you do not fight and uphold your rights as citizens, you will lose them. I know a lot of people will disagree with me and that’s fine, but what I invite you to do is to research your rights and the law on these things first and see where you stand. If the people that read this take nothing else away from it, take this, not everything the “law” does is legal. They are people just like you and I. Do not let them infringe on your rights as a free US citizen. Thanks for reading.

  2. Sam B. says

    June 8, 2014 at 11:36 pm

    If you can’t hold your liquor AND you choose to drive AND you’re so impaired that you get caught at a checkpoint DESPITE several days’ advance warning, then you deserve prosecution for being a loser.

  3. Candice says

    June 6, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Some of you people are seriously so stupid. Obviously they’re not going to disclose where the checkpoint is going to be, so they can catch all the drunk people and give them DUI’s. I’m so glad the police out here started doing this! I can’t even tell you how many times some idiot drunk driver almost crashed into me in the AV.

  4. Anonymous says

    June 6, 2014 at 7:06 am

    What a*holes! Let’s all show them and drive around sober all weekend with updated licenses, car registrations AND insurance!

    • bird says

      June 8, 2014 at 10:17 am

      Anonymous—Now that’s really funny! Thank you for the much needed laughter.

      • William says

        June 8, 2014 at 9:33 pm

        @bird
        You have a sense of humor that needs a lot of work.

        Get it on.

  5. Are you kidding says

    June 5, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    They shouldn’t even say when they are doing it if your stupid and drive drunk you should get busted. They are not sneaky they are doing their job if they put an intersection where they will be the drunks would go a different route

  6. nurse nancy says

    June 5, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    ^ Wouldnt it completely defeat the purpose to disclose the checkpoint location?

  7. annoyed says

    June 5, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    Aren’t the cops supposed to disclose the location of these checkpoints .these sheriff’s are the only ones that don’t post thier location and try to catch u by surprise

    • J says

      June 6, 2014 at 3:32 pm

      They disclose it a couple hours before they conduct it. You can check online. There’s also a FB page for it. You are correct though, they legally have to diclose exactly where the checkpoint will be. I assume they tell you where it is so close to the time they conduct it because they do want to actually catch illegal activities. They DO release the location though.

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