LANCASTER – The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Traffic Services Detail will be conducting a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint at an undisclosed location in Lancaster this Friday, June 9, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Officers will be looking for signs of alcohol and drug impairment. They also will check 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 the impact of a DUI arrest to include jail time, fines, fees, DUI classes, and other expenses that can exceed $10,000.
Funding for this operation is provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
In recent years, California has seen a disturbing increase in drug-impaired driving crashes. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department supports the new effort from the Office of Traffic Safety that aims to educate all drivers that “DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze.” If you take prescription drugs, particularly those with a driving or operating machinery warning on the label, you might be impaired enough to get a DUI. Marijuana can also be impairing, especially in combination with alcohol or other drugs, and can result in a DUI.
The Sheriff’s Department advises residents to plan ahead with these tips:
- Arrange rides home for your friends, family, co-workers and yourself before the drinking begins.
- Identify and provide free non-alcoholic drinks or other promotional items to the designated driver.
- Party hosts and servers should limit drinks to guests or patrons. Don’t serve more than one or two drinks over several hours.
- Cut back on the amount of drinks you plan to bring to a party, and provide plenty of food.
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F__K AV says
The next overblown, exaggerated charade will be the machine that tests for so-called marijuana intoxication. They’ll invent some arbitrary cut-off point based on whatever will generate the most arrest$ and people will be getting DUI’s on Wednesday for the weed they smoked 5 days previous. Nothing but scam. This country is nothing but a scam.
F__K AV says
The next overblown. exaggerated charade will be the machine that tests for so-called marijuana intoxication. They’ll invent some arbitrary cut-off point and people will be getting DUI’s on Wednesday for the weed they smoked 5 days previous. Nothing but scam. This country is nothing but a scam.
William says
Life can be like a minefield that are visible.
You can see a mine and walk around it.
Or, you can see a filed of mines and step ……on….every…..one….of …..them.
Take yer pick.
Mike White says
Lock them up! Take their cars! If they’re breaking the law they shouldn’t be driving! And it’s a laugh that sheriffs deputies are drinking and driving in the AV. Most wouldn’t be caught dead in this cesspool unless they’re getting paid to be here dealing with Section 8 and gang scum.
F__K AV says
Oh is that so? Want me to start naming the establishments in the Antelope Valley where I have seen off-duty LASD officers drinking? Like I said before, something tells me they ain’t taking a Lyft home.
Let me know when you want me to post that list. Should start calling CHP on their low-life hypocrite azzes but is probably wouldn’t make a difference. I’d love to see those tables turned.
VXSGuy says
Everyone is always complaining about the DUI Check Points and knowing of off-duty officers in your words getting drunk and driving. If the DUI check Points are measured on the success of the number of fines it generates then in the process of elimination…If everyone would follow the law i.e. have driver’s license, registration, insurance, operational vehicle and if you are under the influence of illicit or prescription drugs or alcohol then it’s SIMPLE “DON’T DRIVE”. There are alternate means of transportation available now days. Ok if you say you are witnessing off duty officers driving then DON’T TALK ABOUT IT; BE ABOUT IT! Believe it are not social media gives you the biggest voice and widest dissemination. After off-duty officer’s are being video and posted on social media suspected of drinking and driving then someone will have to look into it because we the community will ask. Perfect forum when they have Coffee with a Deputy and Town Hall meeting with AV Monitoring Team. T Scott and S Falco always provide interesting open minded insights to issues if you really take the time to think about what they are saying. I live in Lancaster for awhile now. I have family that both work Fire Department and Law Enforcement. If everyone would just do the 3 simple things then you really wouldn’t have anything to complain about because actually they are telling you when they are going to be out and it’s always the hot spots for known vehicle code violations and the most road activity. If you don’t have proper vehicle documents and impaired driving then just don’t drive and I’m sure the federal funding for the checkpoints will become far and in-between. What makes this unbelievable is why anyone would want these individuals on the road driving or attempting to drive with you or your loved ones on the road. Uninsured motorist Ouch to your wallet. Impaired driver, accident worse case scenario. If the check point only catches one violator then I consider it a plus for the community as a whole. One less person I have to worry about driving on the road with me. DON’T TALK ABOUT IT; BE ABOUT IT!
Nadine says
… basically two ways we can do up the accounting: either we expense it, or we capitalize it. War on terror, the government can’t make dime from, so it gets expensed. From vehicle accidents and drunk driving, government makes a fabulous fortune, so this is something it aggressively and unapologetically capitalizes upon, with no compunction whatsoever proliferating Soviet style checkpoints under the guise, of public safety.
Mechelle says
The biggest, most inefficient courthouse in California’s 58 counties, the only way the Michael D. Antonovich Superior Court can make its payroll and sustain itself is, churning and burning high gross revenue violations, and confiscation and liquidation of highly liquid assets. No better way to accomplish this than, random police shakedowns under the guise of public safety. Only one problem they have: it’s unconstitutional. That the only people who can prove unconstitutionality of these 20th century communist style checkpoints, are highly paid jurists in the legal profession who materially profit, unconstitutional police behavior has become as evermore pervasive as it is, perverse –
Raymond says
… this checkpoint business has nothing whatsoever to do, with public safety. It’s the money. So, let’s mind our wallets, everyone. It’s the policy community lining its pockets once again, applying pressure on county police to reach out, and make yet another grab, for traffic ticket revenue –
William says
So driving under the influence should continue unimpeded? Right, Raymond?
F_K AV says
How ’bout the off duty cops pounding down the drinks at the local AV bars? Seen it a thousand times and something tells me they ain’t taking a Lyft home.
Laughing says
Since you have witnessed those citizens drinking and driving it is your duty as a citizen to anonymously report them, all the way up the chain of command which extends well beyond the local office. I mean you are REALLY concerned right? Not just miffed because someone got away with something you did not get away with or are too afraid to try and get away with?
“The badge” only gets away with things we allow them to get away with.
Shane Falco says
Like Bigfoot, even with the existence of cell phones with cameras that can record instantly and the thousand times you have seen off-duty police officer’s getting drunk and driving, there’s no video footage of it.
First, I don’t know any off-duty cop who goes in, identify themselves as an off duty officer, then proceeds to drink, and then proceeds to drive all in front of dozens of cell cam toting strangers to whom he’s identified himself as an officer.
Second, most don’t go out in the antelope Valley. They will go to Santa Clarita, the Southbay, Santa Monica, and places like that where they are not likely to run into parolees, probationers and people they’ve arrested.
Tim Scott says
Going out drinking sixty miles from home is certainly easier when you know all you have to do if you get pulled over is flash your badge.
Shane Falco says
If you ever read an OIR report, you’d know you’re intentionally incorrect but it does warm my heart that you believe cops and firefighters badge their way out of everything.
Laughing says
Nurses are better at it, they threaten to not care for the officers when they come into the ER. Nurses are all heart LOL
Matt K. says
Are you completely naive, Shane? There are several restaurant bars in the AV where I have seen and come into contact with local LASD.
You think you know everything there is to know about the AV and those of us living here, but you don’t even live here yourself…
If you have so much contempt for our valley and those of us who live here, then why do you keep coming back to this news site and bothering us?
Go comment on the news sites in your precious SCV or Orange County or wherever the hell it is that you claim you live and leave us alone!
William says
Foolco is like Monty Python’s Black Knight. After his arms and legs were hacked off and there’s nothing but a bleeding torso, he says “Tis but a scratch.” and keeps on posting nonsense in Foolco’s case.
I’m waiting for him to start slowly singing “Daisy, Daisy….” like Hal 9000 as his higher functions have long since disappeared.
Like all of his ilk, he thinks he’s so smart while his posts prove otherwise. Like trump, he just doubles down on his, uh, exasperating obtuseness and/or lack of comprehension.
There is no cure. Not here nor in Idaho.
Ronald G Fisher says
Glad to see it. There’s way to many driving while intoxicated in this valley. And uninsured drivers. I hope they get a few.
Tim Scott says
Unfortunately there seems to be no genuine intent to do anything about intoxicated drivers. These checkpoints are measured for their “success” in terms of how many fines are collected for lack of papers that otherwise couldn’t be just randomly asked for and how many cars can be impounded.
Florence says
… ah! More Soviet style checkpoints popping up, with ever-increasing frequency, in and around the Antelope Valley. Taking opportunity to seize assets and generate traffic ticket revenue for our intellectually bankrupt judiciary, our recently militarized police force, keeping tabs on our comings and goings –