On Saturday, March 17, 2018, more than 70 law enforcement officers from across Delaware assembled at several locations in all three counties to conduct statewide impaired driving checkpoints. The focus was on behavioral traffic safety issues such as impaired driving, seat belt use, child-passenger safety, pedestrian and various other traffic safety concerns.
A total of 2,228 vehicles went through the checkpoints; Of those, 51 drivers were detained for further investigation, 15 were drug arrests, 15 DUI arrest, 11 seatbelt arrests, three DRE Evaluations and 12 other traffic arrests.
Delaware's Checkpoint Strike-force is a regional sobriety checkpoint campaign aimed at arresting DUI offenders by using High Visibility Enforcement to deter those who would otherwise choose to drink and drive. In 2017, there have been 3,230 DUI arrests statewide and 24 confirmed fatalities related to impaired driving as of November 2017. The Delaware State Police have teamed up with the Delaware Office of Highway Safety and local law enforcement agencies across the state to coordinate Delaware’s multi-jurisdictional DUI checkpoints in conjunction with the “Border to Border multi-state traffic safety initiative for a safer Delaware.
"As a result of our combined efforts and strategies for the 2018 St. Patrick’s Day Checkpoint Strike-force and the “Border to Border” Traffic Safety Initiative; the Delaware State Police and our local allied partners (Delmar, Laurel, Seaford, Bridgeville and Greenwood Police Departments) were able to arrest a total of 15 driving under influence and 15 drug arrests during the St. Patrick's Day weekend.
As the Delaware State Police collaborated with the Delaware Office of Highway Safety; the outcome of this traffic initiative proved to be a safer weekend for Delaware. Through education, deterrence, proactive patrols and targeted locations we were able to serve the essential purpose to inform the motoring public on the importance of driving safe." --Sgt. Richard Bratz, DSP--
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ReplyDeleteState troopers aka glorified security guards.
ReplyDeleteRidiculous
ReplyDelete2,228 vehicles
70 law enforcement officers
30 true arrests
11 seatbelt??
Over two thousand innocent -- INNOCENT! --- citizens were stopped and searched by armed men without charges or warrants.
ReplyDelete"....to serve the essential purpose to inform the motoring public...."
What BS.
Those Nazi bit***s.
When did "We, the people" start allowing ARMED men to stop us in our right to travel freely without interference to check to see IF, maybe, somehow in some way, possibly MIGHT be committing a crime???
You sheeple and cheerleaders who think the Constitution is a ship better wake up. You let that door get cracked open a little and now they are driving a tank through it.
One day (it's called "precedent), you will answer your front door and be shoved out of the way as a dozen armed men search your house (we pick neighborhoods at random, usually poor ones) for possible crimes. I would say that they would also install a camera in your living room, but they've already done that to everyone with a TV in their house.
You cheered.
Look at some historical footage of millions of Nazi's and German citizens CHEERING as their government robbed, raped, destroyed, and murdered OTHER German citizens. Because they were convinced (by government PROPAGANDA) that there were GOOD REASONS to be doing it. There always are, when it comes to taking from "we, the people".
KEEP cheering. It will help identify you to the real Americans.
Every holiday is an opportunity to violate your 4th A rights. You have done nothing to warrant being detained, questioned and searched other than traveling on a public road. Over 2,000 detained to find 15 DUI drivers that may or may not have been a threat to others.
ReplyDeleteIf police are really trying to prevent DUI/DWI's, when are they going to install breathalyzers in bars and restaurants.
ReplyDeleteWe all know it's not about safety, but all about revenue. Otherwise, we could prevent people from driving while intoxicated at the source BEFORE they get behind the wheel.
So, legislators, let's get it done. Let the bars test their patrons BEFORE they get their car keys. Why is that so difficult???
Illegal searches
ReplyDeleteAwesome job, great work LE!
ReplyDelete11:06....another cheerleader....
ReplyDelete822 - bar provides a service. Then we ask the bar to provide breathalyzers which prove the bar over served. Patron decides to drive and kills someone. Patron AND the bar are libel.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me bars won't want this.....nah.
They will tell you its for your protection and safety, but in reality it is all about producing revenue in the same of safety. It's highway robbery in more than one way.
ReplyDeleteIt's a win win for law enforcement and for the towing companies involved. It's also a violation for your 4th amendment rights. The fact that they are stopping you proves that you are guilty until they prove you innocent. Like communist East Germany in the Sixties, show me your papers!
They "arrest" people for seat belt violations in Delaware. Holy Crap!I guess once they have you handcuffed, that then gives them the "right" to search you and the vehicle for anything else they can find. This kind of law enforcement is what makes people hate the cops for what they do (and what they don't do).
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Those of you crying it is about revenue are pure idiots. Do you think those check points operate in the black morons. It cost major money for overtime and salaries. So they would have to snag at least a hundred D.U.I.s for it to be marginally financially feasible. I do not like check points as a matter of fact I think they are costly and grossly ineffective. I also do not like seeing Americans stopped at a check point unless they are looking for a major felon. Then I have no issue with it. We are so far from Nazi Germany ImKlan that is a ridiculous analogy. Remember you do need a license to operate a vehicle on any roadway. So check points might be a bit extreme but a traffic stop is just that. You cops keep up the good work and never forget it is to protect and serve.
ReplyDeleteDriving on a highway is NOT "probable cause", Heinrich.
ReplyDeleteNazi Germany did not rise overnight, either.
It was aided by people JUST LIKE YOU.
Because you have no issue with it?? well. That settles it. You ARE a Nazi cheerleader.
Google 4th Amendment. Then come back and tell us why you think it does not apply beacuse you are traveling in a car and displaying NO signs of criminal conduct? Yet STILL get stopped by armed men (I use that term very loosely with them) at Nazi checkpoints??
Use your name, too, you sissy.