1546 DUI Arrests in LA County in last 13 Days. 2 Deaths Since Aug.16. Why?
Summer/Labor Day National Anti-DUI crackdown has resulted in a significant number of DUI arrests from local routine traffic enforcement and special Avoid the 100 DUI deployments overnight in Los Angeles County.
From 12:01 AM Friday August 16, 2013 through midnight Wednesday, August 28, 2013 officers representing 100 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 1,546 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
In 2012, 1,418 DUI arrests occurred during the same thirteen (13) day time period. Of the 63 DUI arrests that occurred last night, two of them were a result of crashes causing injury and one causing death. This is the second DUI related fatality since August 16th. (**NOTE: These numbers are only provisional with some agencies yet to report**)
For this Labor Day Holiday weekend, extra DUI saturation patrols and DUI checkpoints will be deployed in multiple cities in Los Angeles County (See Enforcement Schedule below).
In addition, all regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal shifts and the CHP will be deploying all available officers onto freeways and county roads during their Maximum Enforcement Period this weekend beginning 6:00 PM Friday.
Police, Sheriff and the CHP encourage all motorists to help make your community safer: Report Drunk Drivers – Call 911. Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety http://www.ots.ca.gov/ , through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www.nhtsa.gov/
DUI arrest data collection will continue through midnight Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2013. Avoid programs, named for the number of police agencies in each county, will conduct multiple/DUI driver’s license checkpoints, multi-agency DUI task force operations and DUI patrols region wide during 18-day Summer/Labor Day Campaign.
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