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The LAPD is setting up two sobriety & drivers license checkpoints this weekend. As always, just don't drink and drive and you'll be fine.
Between 8:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. tonight, police will set a checkpoint up on Figueroa Street between 8th and 9th streets. Tomorrow in Cahuenga Pass between Hollywood and the Universal City area, a checkpoint will be set up at Cahuenga Boulevard West and Broadlawn Drive between 8:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m.
The locations were chosen based on the number of incidents since the beginning of the year. In downtown, Central Division is reporting 44 driving under the influence-related and 518 hit and run traffic collisions. The North Hollywood Division has endured 148 driving under the influence-related and 951 hit and run traffic collisions.
Both checkpoints run near Metro Red Line stations.
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I don't know if it's been brought up but I think it's a bad idea to tell people where the checkpoints are. If you're drunk you probably won't remember, but this is just helping them to avoid the checkpoints and continue to endanger the lives of others.
The LAPD announces their checkpoints to the media. The media publicizes the checkpoints, yet people still get caught.
Drinking is a problem only if you drive afterwards. We encourage drinking as a society. Just watch the commercials on TV or view the billboards along the main thoroughfares. The last Redline Metro train leaves Union Station at 12:17am. Yet bars stay open until 2:00am.
If we wanted to save lives and encourage drinking without driving, we as a society would demand transportation alternatives, such as running the metro trains until 3:00am. We don't like drinking and driving, but we offer no other alternatives. Not a great system.
I believe checkpoints are publicized in order to avoid the dreaded accusation of 'entrapment'.
Thanks for the heads up. I can usually count on Laist before the weekend and holidays for these announcements. I just make sure I take a different route (no joke)