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Community Corner: LAPD Police Department Targets Impaired Drivers with Checkpoint

2012-02-17T18:03:00.000-08:00

What: Sobriety & Driver’s License Checkpoint

When: Saturday, February 18, 2012, 6 P.M. to

Sunday, February 19, 2012, 1 A.M.

Where: Imperial Highway between Main Street and San Pedro Street

Why: Checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence and provide the greatest safety for officers and the public. Officers will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, court probation and other expenses.

All too often members of our community are senselessly injured or killed on local roadways by impaired drivers. “Over the course of the past year, DUI-related collisions have claimed twelve lives and injured 825 of our friends and neighbors in Los Angeles,” said Lieutenant Ron Katona, Traffic Coordination Section.

This DUI/Driver’s License checkpoint is an effort to reduce those tragedies, as well as insuring drivers have a valid driver’s license. A major component of these checkpoints is to increase awareness of the dangers of impaired driving and to encourage sober designated drivers.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while also yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent.

Funding for this operation is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Report Drunk Drivers. Call 911!

This information was provided by the LAPD.

Start Over Critic and Cynic: Community Corner: President Obama In LA

2012-02-15T23:38:00.000-08:00

Start Over Critic and Cynic: Community Corner: President Obama In LA: In an effort to assist the public in avoiding possible traffic congestion during the visit of the President of the United States, Februar...

Community Corner: President Obama In LA

2012-02-15T23:36:00.000-08:00

In an effort to assist the public in avoiding possible traffic congestion during the visit of the President of the United States, February 16, 2012, the following areas of the City should be avoided when possible to prevent travel delays for community members:

Thursday February 16, 2012

The area around Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

The area around Pico Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

This was a courtesy of the LAPD and a cut and paste from their news letter.

Critic: Peripheral People

2011-12-25T02:52:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas, folks!
I'm Dylan Gosland, the Critic of the Start Over Critic and Cynic superteam. I've been riding the blogger boat since the ancient time of Xanga and the reign of emperor Myspace. It's been a lot of fun so far, so when Start Over Queen asked Cynic and I to come aboard, I was pretty freakin excited. High fives and handshakes excited. Cynic, far as I know, is new to the experience, but equally enthusiastic.

Anyway. I'll let the rest of the introductions handle themselves in time, and get to the meat and potatoes of today's topic:

Peripheral people.
They're the speaking role extras in TV shows, the awkward elevator rides, the mailmen you say hello to every week more out of habit than anything else. They are the secret personalities hidden under all that tipped iceberg.