[HungHingHK]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2...ackdown_la.php

Friday, August 19, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Figueroa Street and 33st Street in Southwest Area;

Friday, August 19, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Glenoaks Boulevard and Paxton Street in Foothill Area;

Saturday, August 20, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and San Jose Street in Devonshire Area;

Saturday, August 20, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Sunset Boulevard and Sutherland Street in Northeast Area;

Sunday, August 21, 2011 - DUI Saturation Patrol from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. in Harbor Area;

Friday, August 26, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Figueroa Street and 9th Street in Central Area;

Friday, August 26, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Manchester Avenue and Broadway in Southeast Area;

Friday, August 26, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Sunset Boulevard and Hoover Street in Northeast Area;

Saturday, August 27, 2011 - DUI Saturation Patrol from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. in West Los Angeles Area.

Friday, September 2, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Venice Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Wilshire Area;

Friday, September 2, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Topanga Boulevard and Califa Street in Topanga Area;

Saturday, September 3, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Venice Boulevard and Lincoln Boulevard in Pacific Area;

Saturday, September 3, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Western Avenue and Slauson Avenue in 77th Street Area;

Saturday, September 3, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Figueroa Street and 9th Street in Central Area; and,

Sunday, September 4, 2011 - Sobriety Checkpoint from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Harbor Boulevard and 1st Street in Harbor Area;

[E90SLAM]

No drinking, no worries!

Stay safe out there everyone!

[NYCGP]

Originally Posted by E90SLAM

No drinking, no worries!

Stay safe out there everyone!

From the looks of the list, all you need to do is wait until 3 am to drive home..

[jpsum]

It's great that they made this info public.

[ragingclue]

Originally Posted by jpsum

It's great that they made this info public.

Kinda defeats the purpose, although I'm sure they'll catch many. They just won't be able to catch the well-prepared and studious drunks.

[HungHingHK]

Originally Posted by jpsum

It's great that they made this info public.

by law they have to

[solefald]

cab it.

[Freakazoid]

Originally Posted by ragingclue

Kinda defeats the purpose, although I'm sure they'll catch many. They just won't be able to catch the well-prepared and studious drunks.

this...by knowing the idiots that drive drunk, they're the ones who get nabbed by the DUIs.

They know the DUI is there, they see it from miles away...but they still drive through it.

[JayKay335i]

I hope you go to jail

[Blake]

operation R.E.V.E.N.U.E.

[Crimson92]

Originally Posted by Blake

operation R.E.V.E.N.U.E.

how? by taking drunk drivers off the street? does it seem like a bad thing to you?

[Nikki]

Thanks for the info!

Originally Posted by E90SLAM

No drinking, no worries!

Stay safe out there everyone!

Even if you aren't drinking it sucks when it's 1am and you're stuck behind 2879128379182 cars at a DUI checkpoint.

[Blake]

Originally Posted by Crimson92

how? by taking drunk drivers off the street? does it seem like a bad thing to you?

nope...the problem is there is too much tolerance for this stupidity anyway. DUI checkpoints aren't needed in many countries because the penalties are much harsher than here. hell, until you get 3, it's nothing more than an expensive inconvenience. the system is designed to generate revenue, not to catch people driving drunk to keep the streets safer. yes, that's the premise, but you allow people to get a handful of DUI's before they lose their freedom, people will continue to see it as something less than a serious crime.

i'm by no means some big supporter of MADD or related organizations, but the fundamental ideology behind driving after drinking in the US is broken, especially from a prospective of the world. we define intoxicated higher than most countries. take japan, for example...DUI is .03 BAC or higher, with nearly certain jail time as a result of one conviction. consequently, you would be hard pressed to find one japanese person even consider driving after they've had a drink, also due in part to vigorous enforcement. now, just think if we had similar laws here. do you think we would have as high a number of DUI incidences? i know it would sure deter people from doing it in such numbers.

so back to my original point, DUI checkpoints are nothing more than a drag net of revenue generating stations. most of the people caught in them will likely be first time offenders and get nothing more than an expensive slap on the wrist. statistically, most of them aren't likely to get another DUI. the habitual dangerous offenders will get caught, no matter what, because to police, they're easy to pick out. i have a friend that just got out of prison for 4 DUI convictions, and he'll tell you that none of them were by mistake. he's lucky, IMO, because he got them here in america and it took 4 convictions to finally lock him up, even though he only did 8 months on a 2 year sentence.

[TK-421]

cab it. if you drive drunk you deserve every cent of your fine

[solefald]

Government does not know what to do with DUI laws, because they don't want to stop this revenue stream. They just keep making penalties stiffer every few years, yet the number of DUI cases hasn't fluctuated significantly in any direction. So, I agree with Blake, it's nothing more than a temporary inconvenience. Some people will learn from it, some wont, but the number of people in a drunk tank on any given weekend night will not change.