May 30, 2012 9:02 AM
A newly formed Suffolk County East End DWI Task Force deployed for the first time this weekend to clamp down on motorists driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, netted 15 arrests, including 9 for DWI, and 47 traffic tickets, at a Southampton checkpoint over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
More than a dozen law enforcement agencies teamed up and pooled resources to target areas with increased enforcement over the busy holiday, the first time that the task force was in action. At Southampton’s checkpoint, on Montauk Highway near the intersection with County Road 39A on Saturday night, 16 officers from Southampton Town Police, the Suffolk County sheriff’s office, Southampton Village Police, East Hampton Town Police, East Hampton Village Police and Quogue Village Police worked together from about 9 p.m.... more
More than a dozen law enforcement agencies teamed up and pooled resources to target areas with increased enforcement over the busy holiday, the first time that the task force was in action. At Southampton’s checkpoint, on Montauk Highway near the intersection with County Road 39A on Saturday night, 16 officers from Southampton Town Police, the Suffolk County sheriff’s office, Southampton Village Police, East Hampton Town Police, East Hampton Village Police and Quogue Village Police worked together from about 9 p.m.... more
Have to be ...more careful though, the cavalier attitude towards honorable behavior that enforcing unfair drunk driving laws instills in cops may encourage them to behave similarly in circumstances other than DWI busts, like the STPD cops have been doing.
You make it seem like the police stop everyone, make them blow and if they are .08 or higher they haul them off to jail. Not for nothin', ...more but we all know the law, we all know it' s .08 wether we agree with it or not, so if you are so afraid that the gestapo will get you (even if you believe you are "fine" at .08) then have someone else drive.
Did you not see the story of the 21 year old girl who drove her car THROUGH a house nearly killing her passanger and two people inside the home? If these checkpoints can get people like her off the road before they crash into my house, it's more than worth it.