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Updated: 10:59 AM Sep 10, 2010
Lincoln Police Department Targets Impaired Drivers With Checkpoint
Courtesy: LPD The Lincoln Police Department has scheduled increased traffic enforcement September 9-10, 2010 to impact drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
Posted: 10:59 AM Sep 10, 2010Reporter: KOLNKGIN Email Address: desk@1011now.com |
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The Lincoln Police Department has scheduled increased traffic enforcement September 9-10, 2010 to impact drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
A saturation detail will be conducted the first night with a zero tolerance approach to impaired drivers. A sobriety checkpoint will take place on Friday, September 10th at an undisclosed location in Northwest Lincoln. In an effort to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes, DUI checkpoints are conducted to identify offenders and get them off the street, as well as to educate the public on the dangers of impaired driving.
All too often, members of our community are senselessly injured or killed on local roadways by impaired drivers. This DUI checkpoint is an effort to reduce those tragedies.
A major component of these checkpoints is to increase awareness of the dangers of impaired driving and to encourage sober designated drivers.
Funding for this enforcement is provided by a grant from the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety.
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Oh yah, now why don't we just get on television and tell them where that set up is located so everyone can avoid it? hmmm. t.v. is so lame. they reveal everything they should not and some of what they should.
iny bit more tax revenue, pure and simple; GOOD. Get those drunk morons off the road.
These Grants for increasing the patrol and having checkpoints are great, but why do they announce it to the public BEFORE they have them??? I would think Not telling the Public till afterwards would be smarter???
Just an example. Setting up check points etc. Gee and did we not pass the 2 a.m. bar closing time.?? Getting more drunks on the road and increasing more police , just as I thought.
The 2am thing? Desperately grabbing for a tiny bit more tax revenue, pure and simple.
This great, but don't understand the concept of letting the bars stay open till 2 in the morning. Seems this is not helping the driving and drinking situation. Can only imagine how much more intoxicated one can get with an extra hour of the bars being open. Does not make a whole lot of sense to me. Yes it will bring in more revenue, but so many problems could occur in doing so. Like adding fuel to the fire.so to speak. Sorry that this ordinance was passed in the first place. Concerned citizen....having to take the police away from more important crimes going on in this city.
I'd like to see shifting sobriety checkpoints for drivers leaving the downtown area on Friday and Saturday nights. They could probably get OT grants for this. Move the checkpoints around to keep them guessing. They know how to do this, though the binge-drinking bars and the drunk drivers would cry like babies.
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