Washtenaw County police officers issue 109 citations during Halloween enforcement efforts
For some, Halloween trick or treating came in the form of a traffic citation or arrest.
Officers from five Washtenaw County police departments spent the weekend stepping up patrols and made a total of 175 traffic stops during their 194 hours of enforcement, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department.
The officers — from the Sheriff's Department, Pittsfield Township, Milan, Saline and University of Michigan — were on the lookout for impaired drivers from Oct. 28 to Oct. 31.
They found six suspected drunken drivers, police said.
In addition, 109 traffic citations were written, and several people were arrested for other offenses, police said.
Among those arrests:
- Two for driving on a suspended license.
- Two for fleeing and eluding police in the same car. According to the Sheriff's Department, two people switched driving during the chase before crashing the car. Among the charges from that incident were felon in possession of a firearm, drunken driving, carrying a concealed weapon, resisting and obstructing police, third-offense driving on a suspended license, possession of marijuana and open intoxicants.
The enforcement was paid for by federal traffic safety funds administered by the Office of Highway Safety Planning.
Comments
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Sun, Nov 7, 2010 : 8:17 a.m.
So Basic Bob, Are you saying that the Sheriff's Deputies should not give warnings? I'm sure the 66 person's stopped had some type of an infraction, but were warned instead. (Probably didn't think of that, before posting). In regards to jameslucas. 3% suspected success rate? I think more like a 100% success rate, everytime you get one drunk off of the street and possibly save someone's loved oon. Good job to all of the officers involved! Also, do you really think they are suppose to get 175 drunks, because they did 175 traffic stops? Let's use some common sense here.
Basic Bob
Sun, Nov 7, 2010 : 7:57 a.m.
66 drivers were stopped with no citations issued. Random stops indeed. All paid for by federal "safety planning" funds.
Brad
Sun, Nov 7, 2010 : 7:21 a.m.
Sounds like a checkpoint or just random stops. Either that or their rationale for deciding who to stop is very, very bad. Your tax dollars at work. Not.
jameslucas
Sat, Nov 6, 2010 : 9:52 p.m.
The enforcement was paid for by federal traffic funds. They were on the look out for inpaired drivers. They made a total of 175 traffic stops during 194 hours. They found 6 suspected drunken drivers. Thats 3% suspected success rate. That's one stop every 1-hour 7-minutes. Sounds like a suspect effort.
AlphaAlpha
Sat, Nov 6, 2010 : 8 p.m.
"...switched driving during the chase..." Whoa. Any chance of us watching that video? Wow...