Thread: 27 vehicles impounded at CA. checkpoint, 15 no license

Drivers arrested at Chula Vista DUI checkpoint

By Maureen Magee
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 11:16 a.m.

At a sobriety checkpoint in Chula Vista Friday night, police made two arrests for driving under the influence. Officers also impounded 27 vehicles and issued 15 citations for various vehicle code violations.

Some 2,000 vehicles drove through the checkpoint on the 600 block of E Street from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday, Chula Vista Police said. Nearly half of the drivers were flagged by officers and seven were evaluated for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. At the checkpoint, 17 drivers were driving on a suspended license and 15 were driving without a license.
The traffic operation was part of the police department’s ongoing effort to keep the roads safe and discourage anyone from getting behind the wheel while intoxicated. The checkpoint was funded, in part, with a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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If you call it DUI Checkpoint it is legal.
If you call it an unlicensed illegal alien checkpoint it would be illegal.

And tomorrow la raza will be screaming bloody murder

poor illegals , they should be allowed to drive , splitting families , oh our poor communities

Police dept are crumbling right and left over the latino pressure

Meanwhile we can go pound sand if we don't have a license or insurance

So just In this case 15 out of 1000 did not have a license. Thats only 1500 out of 100,000. There Is a heck of a lot more Illegals than this driving without a license. I bet I see 1500 per week when I commute 50 miles on the freeway In the San Joaquin Valley

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

And tomorrow la raza will be screaming bloody murder

poor illegals , they should be allowed to drive , splitting families , oh our poor communities

Police dept are crumbling right and left over the latino pressure

Meanwhile we can go pound sand if we don't have a license or insurance

Most every P.D. in San Diego County has DUI checkpoints every month.
Some smaller agencies only do them a couple of times a year.
And they impound the cars of anyone who doesn't have a license or insurance, or is DUI.

Originally Posted by topsecret10

So just In this case 15 out of 1000 did not have a license. Thats only 1500 out of 100,000. There Is a heck of a lot more Illegals than this driving without a license. I bet I see 1500 per week when I commute 50 miles on the freeway In the San Joaquin Valley :roll:

Sounds like you need to demand that they do some "DUI" checkpoints in your area.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

And tomorrow la raza will be screaming bloody murder

poor illegals , they should be allowed to drive , splitting families , oh our poor communities

Police dept are crumbling right and left over the latino pressure

Meanwhile we can go pound sand if we don't have a license or insurance

Most every P.D. in San Diego County has DUI checkpoints every month.
Some smaller agencies only do them a couple of times a year.
And they impound the cars of anyone who doesn't have a license or insurance, or is DUI.

Not any more , latino pressure is making many of these pds relax their rules

California DUI Checkpoints Snag More Unlicensed Drivers than Drunk Ones

Fri, Feb 19, 2010
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By Ryan Gabrielson
California Watch

Sobriety checkpoints in California are increasingly turning into profitable operations for local police departments that are far more likely to seize cars from unlicensed motorists than catch drunken drivers.

An investigation by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley with California Watch has found that impounds at checkpoints in 2009 generated an estimated $40 million in towing fees and police fines – revenue that cities divide with towing firms.

Additionally, police officers received about $30 million in overtime pay for the DUI crackdowns, funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety.

In dozens of interviews over the past three months, law enforcement officials and tow truck operators say that vehicles are predominantly taken from minority motorists – often illegal immigrants.

In the course of its examination, the Investigative Reporting Program reviewed hundreds of pages of city financial records and police reports, and analyzed data documenting the results from every checkpoint that received state funding during the past two years. Among the findings:

• Sobriety checkpoints frequently screen traffic within, or near, Hispanic neighborhoods. Cities where Hispanics represent a majority of the population are seizing cars at three times the rate of cities with small minority populations. In South Gate, a Los Angeles County city where Hispanics make up 92 percent of the population, police confiscated an average of 86 vehicles per operation last fiscal year.

• The seizures appear to defy a 2005 federal appellate court ruling that determined police cannot impound cars solely because the driver is unlicensed. In fact, police across the state have ratcheted up vehicle seizures. Last year, officers impounded more than 24,000 cars and trucks at checkpoints. That total is roughly seven times higher than the 3,200 drunken driving arrests at roadway operations. The percentage of vehicle seizures has increased 53 percent compared to 2007.

• Departments frequently overstaff checkpoints with officers, all earning overtime. The Moreno Valley Police Department in Riverside County averaged 38 officers at each operation last year, six times more than federal guidelines say is required. Nearly 50 other local police and sheriff’s departments averaged 20 or more officers per checkpoint – operations that averaged three DUI arrests a night.

Law enforcement officials say demographics play no role in determining where police establish checkpoints.

Indeed, the Investigative Reporting Program’s analysis did not find evidence that police departments set up checkpoints to specifically target Hispanic neighborhoods. The operations typically take place on major thoroughfares near highways, and minority motorists are often caught in the checkpoints’ net.

“All we’re looking for is to screen for sobriety and if you have a licensed driver,â€

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2010: Year of the DUI Checkpoint in California

St. Helena Star

Despite years of efforts to raise public awareness about the risks and costs of driving under the influence of alcohol and other substances, drivers continue to ignore the warnings and make bad judgments.

Clearly, something must be done.

State government has started.

Last week state traffic safety officials announced plans to tighten their grip on drunk drivers and declared 2010 “The Year of the Checkpoint.â€