This Saturday night from 8:30pm until 1am, SFPD will set up a sobriety checkpoint at the intersection of Geary Boulevard and 9th Avenue.
The checkpoint is aimed at preventing DUI crashes by educating the public about driving sober and by taking
dangerous drunk drivers off the road before they hit and hurt someone, said Capt. Al Casciato, who commands
the San Francisco Police Dept.’s Traffic Company.
“We never call a DUI crash an accident,” Casciato remarked. “They are collisions, 100 percent preventable collisions. Everyone knows that driving drunk or high kills people.”
Earlier this month, a drunk driver killed a man after running a red light at Geary and Arguello in the middle of the night.
Saturday’s sobriety checkpoint intersection was also the site of a pedestrian fatality back in November 2009, though not related to driving under the influence.
Sarah B.
[via SFCitizen]
What good is a checkpoint if you let people know where and when it is happening….
What a joke. Hey, somebody is going to rob that store on the same corner one hour before the checkpoint starts….
So why in God’s name do you post the information about the checkpoint? I’ve worked in the legal system for 25 years and had a lot of contact with people who drive drunk. They are in total denial. The don’t think of themselves as drunk drivers, they just think of themselves as people who drink, who can handle their liquor, even if they do test out above the legal limit. So if some of those folks see this post, all they will do is think, “just in case, I’ll take another route home,” which will greatly reduce the value of the checkpoint.
why couldn’t you just say generally that a check point is planned in the Richmond sometime in the next few days?
@Annie – It’s a good question. You should ask the police department why they publicize the checkpoint in the first place?
http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=3696
I’m not revealing any secrets here, the department is the one that released news of the checkpoint.
I suspect it’s something about wanting to publicize their DUI prevention efforts.
Sarah B.
I am very sorry. I didn’t think to look back to the source. and I will ask the cop shop. they could publicize their efforts just as well without giving the specific location.