LAPD Peforming “Sobriety Checkpoint” A/K/A “Revenue Shakedown” In Topanga Area TONIGHT
The LAPD will unfortunately be conducting a “sobriety and drivers license checkpoint” tonight in our area. It is well known and widely reported that these checkpoints have little to do with catching drunk drivers and are essentially about the revenue they collect when they catch people driving on suspended licenses. Your vehicle will be impounded. The notice included a map which had the intersection of Califa St and Topanga Canyon Blvd marked, however if it s not 100% clear if that is where the checkpoint will be.
If you encounter this checkpoint, please disregard your civil rights before entering. I joke not when I tell you this is one of the most evil things going on with the government of California today. Watch the video below for more information as well.
A sobriety and drivers license checkpoint will be held tonight.
The purpose of the sobriety checkpoint is to reduce the number of traffic collisions involving intoxicated drivers and hit and run collisions. During this year, residents residing in the Topanga Area endured 19 driving under the influence-related and 99 hit and run traffic collisions. The checkpoint will educate the community to use designated drivers and not drink and drive. Our message is simple: If we catch you drunk, you will be arrested.
It is the Los Angeles Police Department’s goal to continue providing public awareness on the dangers of drinking and driving, and the laws concerning driving without a valid driver’s license. Motorists approaching a checkpoint will observe traffic signs, information and police officers advising that a checkpoint is ahead. Once diverted into a lane, each motorist will be detained momentarily while an officer explains the purpose of the checkpoint.
Funding for this checkpoint is provided by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. We can all help make our streets safer, please report Drunk Drivers – Call 911.
Update: Full time and location info from LAist (8pm to 3am).
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They did one of these on Ventura & Lankershim (there was no way to avoid it) a few months back. Boy was I upset, I hadn’t taken the freeway home. Fortunately, even with no front license plate, I got waved through.
If you’re not drinking and driving, or driving without a license, you have nothing to worry about. You may think this is a nuisance, but if you ever lose a friend or a loved one to a drunk driver, you might change your tune. As for unlicensed drivers, they are a huge source of hit & run accidents which affects everyone’s insurance rates, so I’m all for them being harassed too. Not really sure what your problem is with this…
So, I’m supposed to be sympathetic to people who are not only here illegally, but driving without a license and obviously without insurance? What bullshit!
Driving is a privilege, not a right, and it just because some poor people from another country are here because they can’t make a living in the badly run country they’re from DOES NOT mean that they don’t have to obey the same laws I do.
If someone is driving with a suspended license, or no license at all, they are breaking the law. If they are undocumented, they are ILLEGAL aliens. Most likely, they are uninsured as well. So it is a good thing if unlicensed, illegal and possibly intoxicated drivers are caught.
I typically don’t like to write anything on this blog that takes things in too much of a political direction, but I’ll write this anyways.
You guys are unfortunately following the red herring that the government has tossed out on this issue. Oh, it’s going to catch drunk drivers and those who are unlicensed and driving on a suspended license.
Well, sure it will. So what. It will also subject many people who do not fall into either category into being compulsorily required to consent to searches without any probably cause. You will be stopped, and required to produce your ‘papers.’
If you believe this is about stopping drunk drivers, you are sadly mistaken. It is about collecting revenue.
Do you also believe that if the government wanted to enter your home and search for child pornography, that would be okay? I mean, you presumably don’t have any child pornography, so you ‘don’t have anything to worry about.’ I believe Germans and Polish folks that weren’t hiding any Jews in their homes didn’t have anything to worry about either.
My insurance is paid, my car is properly registered, and my license is pristine. And I am still “worried” about checkpoints that remove my freedoms.
Sure, I presumably get “Freedom From” drunk drivers and presumably uninsured or unlicensed drivers, who might or might not be illegal immigrants. Don’t get me started about racist those comments really are. You lose your “Freedom To” move about your community without having to submit to questions from the police.
Your freedom is a lot like a copyright, patent, or trademark. If you don’t work to defend it, it becomes worthless.
Our government is desperate for money. They have no problem with removing your freedoms to get it. That is why you should be frightened.
To those of you who run to the old standby “driving is a privilege not a right” you have been reading too many DMV handbooks. You do not surrender your civil rights when you enter a vehicle. Even by California’s own laws (and not to mention that wacky document the Constitution) the government cannot deprive you of property without due process. Which, apparently a 30 day impound of your vehicle certainly is. And, in most circumstances, police must have a reason to pull you over. Tonight, their reason is that you are driving on Topanga Canyon Blvd between 8pm and 3am. Boy, that makes sense doesn’t it. You must be a criminal of some sort to be doing that. Produce that ID and let’s find out.
And, 911jason, when would you like the IRS to come by to examine your tax returns and personal finances. I mean, as long as you have nothing illegal happening, you shouldn’t care right? Lets have them look through your closets, too.
Believe what you want, but I encourage you to always ask “why” your government is doing something. Don’t just blindly surrender your rights because they are telling you it’s in your best interest.
Did you write that last post from a grassy knoll?
Announcing the details of a “drunk driving” checkpoint in advance always seemed counterintuitive to me. If I’m planning to go get sauced at Ruth’s Chris and drive home in a zigzag fashion, I know exactly what intersection to avoid.
Any idea what all the fuss was about around 7 a.m. yesterday? There were multiple marked and unmarked police cars speeding West on the 101 with sirens blaring…and CHP running a traffic break. Maybe they were trying to hit Blinkie’s in time to see the apple fritters emerge hot from the fryers. (Announcement: sarcasm alert)
There was a domestic violence incident on Hatteras near Reseda Blvd. A man shot his wife and then refused to come out and started taking shots out his windows after the police arrived. It started before dawn. The LAPD SWAT team responded and I the man eventually surrendered without further injury.