Officers contacted 314 vehicles in a Concord DUI checkpoint Friday night through early Saturday morning but didn’t make any arrests, police said.
The checkpoint was held at Willow Pass Road and Mount Diablo Street from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The location was based on reported incidents of impaired driving-related crashes and DUI arrests, police said.
The primary purpose of checkpoints is not to make arrests, but to promote public safety by deterring drivers from driving impaired, according to police.
Then the check points are doing their job. Or the drunks are going around them.
Or people are actually not driving around drunk?
Did Stats for a long time for PD you can’t go wrong on this one.
Unless you’re told to. Let’s hope that’s never the case here.
Maybe the message is finally out there… good job LE
of course there were no arrest, what i want to know is how many people if any had their car towwed for other minnor infractions like outdated tags,ect.
Benton told them not to hook up the black guys.
Bars close at 2am, seems foolish to close checkpoints at 2am, should go until at least 2:30am or 3am. Not enough traffic going down that area either. Should have been on Monument, Concord Ave, or maybe Treat……….
I wish they would do funding for checkpoints for speeders and reckless drivers. We did a great job in this state over the last 30 years of cracking down on drunk driving. It still happens, it still needs to be enforced, but there are massive deterrents. Everyone knows that your first DUI, if you are lucky enough to not hurt yourself or hurt / kill others, you will pay at minimum $10K in fines and attorney fees. License suspended, often times mandatory AA meetings. Getting a DUI has such (rightly) severe punishment that way less people do it then they did 20 years ago.
We need to start doing that with the reckless drivers and side show participants. Get pulled over for driving 90 on Clayton Rd? Participate in a sideshow? Impound the car, $10K fine, license suspended, mandatory attendance at weekly safety meetings for 4 months where you have to listen to the family members of people killed or maimed by reckless drivers tell you about their pain.
Time for public sentiment to start demanding that reckless drivers pay the cost-just like we did for drunk drivers. Some of this state funding for DUI checkpoints would perhaps be better used right now against the red light runners and the reckless speeders, they seem to be causing a whole lot of accidents lately.
Willow Pass Road and Mount Diablo Street strikes me as not being the best location for a DUI checkpoint. I see so many drunk drivers on Ygnacio Valley Road cutting through to Pittsburg/Bay Point/Antioch. I’m sure that setting up a checkpoint on Kirker Pass Road adjacent to the Concord Pavilion would yield several arrests on a Saturday night.