Santa Rosa police will hold a DUI/license checkpoint on Friday night — the 10th in about the past year.
As in the past, police wouldn’t say where the checkpoint will be. But they did say it would be 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday.
The checkpoint is funded by a grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Sgt. Lance Badger said Friday’s checkpoint is the 10th since the grant was issued last October.
———-
Follow the Road Warrior on Twitter via @PDRoadWarrior
shawna
I wish the budget allowed for you to conduct more. Even if just 1 is caught, you saved a life somewhere & for that, we are thankful!
September 13th, 2012 9:31 pm
bill
DUI checkpoints are a gross misuse of our tax dollars. Clearly ineffective and lacking the oversight of the feds, nothing more than a cash cow for a few cops. Nothing is done to improve our health standards and those suffering from alcohol addiction and new technology of driverless cars is still not implemented even though far superior than even our best drivers. Calls to 911 produce more DUI arrests than checkpoints.
September 14th, 2012 2:32 am
Bartolo
Settle down, Bill.
September 14th, 2012 6:52 am
JEFF FERDINANDSON
The checkpoints are an obvious good idea. Let’s have one a week!
September 14th, 2012 8:44 am
Don Steers
DUI checkpoints are a total boondoggle. It’s all overtime pay to the cops (who by the way usually make between $75k -$150k per year). The funding comes from state and federal grants rather than the cops’ normal state funded pay. If you really wanted to crack down on dui cases, we’d have mandatory breathalyzers in all new cars. Just make them standard.
September 14th, 2012 8:59 am
Anthony Angry
Check points must assume guilt until innocence is proven to be justifiable. This gestapo mechanism is the product of reasoning that is the antithesis of American justice. Innocent until proven guilty, does anyone understand what that means? Supporters of this violation of constitutionally protected rights have only the straw-men arguments that anyone that doesn’t support check points are in favor of protecting drunk drivers or illegal aliens.
As a motorcycle rider, I’m far more vulnerable than a person in a car and I want DUI’s off the road. But, I won’t support Totalitarianism to achieve that goal!
“Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”
–Ben Franklin
September 14th, 2012 9:11 am
Sam
Bill is right, Bartolo, checkpoints don’t solve any problems & they usually end up sending drunks careening around nearby neighborhoods looking to get around them.
September 14th, 2012 9:20 am
Me
shawna, check out this website,
http://www.californiaavoid.org/releases_Cm.php?county=7
September 14th, 2012 10:31 am
Jeff
I have to agree with Bill (except for the driverless cars- BAD idea) and Anthony here. Personally, I haven’t used alcohol for over 25 years, so I can positively state that I have nothing to fear from these police-state checkpoints except the fact of them being allowed in one of the United States of America at all. There is NO constitutionally valid excuse or justfication for these, and they do no good whatsoever. Until people either stop drinking or stop driving, some will combine the two, and I resent the government assuming I’m one of them unless I prove otherwise.
September 14th, 2012 10:47 am
Jeremy
Funny how nobody actually refutes the logical points made by the those opposing checkpoints for Constitutional reasons. Arguments made based on emotion rather than logic or fact never win.
September 14th, 2012 12:56 pm
juan carlos
This is good, they have this all the Time in Iraq
September 14th, 2012 4:20 pm
Bulldog
Why all these checkpoints in the north bay while the southbay has none except around newyears , what gives!?
September 14th, 2012 8:11 pm
Civil Rights Upholder
Police State. Civil Rights disregarded. Cops paid overtime. Police departments need to start offering safe rides home. Spend their money helping people get home safely by offering sober rides; not unconstitutionally entrapping the public.
Don’t drink and drive!
September 14th, 2012 11:52 pm
Don Steers
Complete Waste of Resources
September 15th, 2012 12:45 pm
CJ
BooHOO I welcome all checkpoints and don’t give. Wait until someone kills your family member, then you’d care.
September 24th, 2012 3:14 pm