San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers learn SDPD Officer James Zirpolo arrested 113 people for DUI during a recent 6 month period

San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers are informed this Voice Of San Diego.org story "Answering Readers' Crime Questions" uses San Diego DUI / Drunk Driving arrest data from the San Diego Police Department that represents a six-month period between September 2009 and February 2010.

Here is what it found regarding San Diego Police Department Officer James Zirpolo during this time period.

Which San Diego Police Department officer made the most DUI arrests?

SDPD Officer James Zirpolo arrested 113 people for DUI. The next San Diego Police Department officer had 94 and the average among all officers who arrested at least one person was 14. Keep in mind that some officers, especially those in administrative roles, make few arrests so that brings the average down.

Almost all of Zirpolo's arrests were based on DUI / drunk driving charges in Pacific Beach or surrounding neighborhoods. He arrested 76 men and 37 women.

If one assumes that Officer Zirpolo worked full time 5 days per week for 8 hours per day that would equal 120 days in a 24 week period which would equate to close to 1 San Diego DUI arrest for every day he worked, or 113/120 = .94 people per day.

Pacific Beach has a number of intoxicated persons, especially on Garnet, but if one assumes that most San Diego DUI arrests occurred on a Friday or Saturday and there were approximately 48 of those days during the 24 week period, that would likely mean that he had to have arrested 2-3 people of those days alone.

If one accounts for the amount of time it takes to investigate and process a San Diego DUI arrest, including but not limited to the time it takes to administer all of the San Diego DUI field sobriety tests, breath testing, chemical testing, booking, impound, report-writing, and related San Diego DUI tasks, this appears to be an extraordinarily high number of drunk driving arrests in San Diego. San Diego DUI Criminal Defense Attorneys take note.