Below is an interative map
of the DUI Sobriety Checkpoints commonly found in San Diego,
as well as the most recent DUI Checkpoint locations in San
Diego.
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You know what's not right with sociable citizens?
Scaring decent motorists everywhere because of all these
San Diego DUI checkpoints!
These
San Diego California DUI checkpoints are ridiculous.
When you see cones in the road, vehicles backed up, and
officers present, you can assume are entering a sobriety
checkpoint. So leave. Get out. Turn.
Do it lawfully though. San Diego California DUI cops
are sometimes cheating and/or not giving proper advance
notice or warnings folks are entering a San Diego DUI checkpoint.
That's not fair. There's no wrongdoing by attempting
to avoid a San Diego California drunk driving checkpoint!
Come on cops, follow
the rules!
Here's an awkward
story about an attorney prosecutor turning around to
try to avoid a drunk driving checkpoint and getting arrested
for DUI drugs. Put out a net and lots of fish will
be caught, even dolphins. Just isn't right, is it?
This leading San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyer has these
tips on how to handle a San Diego DUI / Drunk Driving Checkpoint
if you happen to drive into a San Diego DUI Checkpoint.
With holidays, weekends, and the San Diego County AVOID
the DUI campaign, many more San Diego DUI cops will be looking
for drunk drivers and asking questions of folks they do
NOT have to answer, and asking folks to do things they don't
have to do.
If you the San Diego DUI officer contacts you in the checkpoint
or asks you to go to secondary for a California DUI assessment,
politely roll down your window and perhaps put your hands
on the steering wheel.
If a San Diego DUI officer asks you if you for anything
other than (1) License, (2) Registration, and (3) Insurance,
remember you don't have to answer. Just give them the three
items and politely wait.
Do not make any statements to the San Diego county DUI cop.
The million dollar question the San Diego DUI officer is
likely to ask is, "Have you had anything to drink tonight?"
Remember you are not required to speak to San Diego DUI
checkpoint / San Diego area drunk driving officers. Be brave
and hold your ground.
San Diego county DUI Checkpoint cops are trying to collect
DUI evidence against you. Please do not give the officer
anything other than license, registration and insurance.
"Officer, I understand and respect what you do for
a living, but I do not want to answer any of your questions."
You do NOT have to answer anything. If the cop insists,
give him the name of your San Diego DUI criminal defense
attorney (e.g. Rick Mueller) and his phone number (1 800
THE LAW DUI). You know your rights.
The less San Diego DUI evidence the cops get at the roadblock,
the better for you. If you have alcohol on your breath,
you will get arrested anyway. But do not give the San Diego
DUI checkpoint officer anything to put in that report that
she or he can use against you later.
The San Diego DUI officer may ask you to perform some acrobatics
or gymnastics aka field sobriety tests. Please remember
to let him or her know that you do not
wish to participate in any tests. You are not required to
comply. San Diego DUI officers try to give some tests to
try to figure out if you are impaired (but mostly just to
collect evidence and point out the things you allegedly
did wrong).
Many San Diego drunk driving cops learn how to do these
tests, and thereafter forget them, often making up their
own series of "tests." Please do not do them.
Polite hold the course and continue to say that you do not
wish to perform and tests. You have that right.
The San Diego DUI cop may ask you to blow into a hand-held,
breath test gadget. Unless you are on DUI
probation, please do not blow in the
little box.
Hand-held breath test gadgets are unreliable, and often
"display" falsely elevated numbers which are higher
than your true BAC. Do not blow in the little box if the
San Diego DUI cop wants you to.
NO ROADSIDE/PRELIMINARY BREATH TEST IS "ALCOHOL SPECIFIC."
Other junk (soy sauce, white bread, etc.) falsely tests
positive as "alcohol."
Unless you are on probation or under 21 years of age, under
the California Vehicle Code, you are NOT required to blow
into the little hand-held San Diego DUI breath gadget; you
are entitled to refuse the little roadside San Diego breath
test.
But you must provide blood or breath on a big breath test
machine per California's implied consent laws; do one (not
both) and that's it. Nothing more. Politely.
Here's another thing that isn't right! Somebody tell
me why the Costa Mesa Police Department has a California
DUI / Driver's License checkpoint on a Tuesday?! What
a waste of money. Yes, a
Tuesday California DUI Checkpoint with lots of well-paid
police officers having coffee and donuts from 6:00 P.M.
to 11:00 P.M. Funding for this waste of money California
DUI checkpoint comes from state and federal governments
who love to waste money and tax taxpayers - the California
Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Transportation
Safety Administration. Who goes out on Tuesdays anyway?
There can't be any reasonable financial return on this endeavor.
It's one thing if a person is justifiably arrested for being
drunk while driving on a friday or saturday night and who
then will face jail time, loss of their driver’s license,
higher insurance rates, and dozens of other unanticipated
expenses on a Tuesday night. But how can the state
make any money at this? If the state wants to
waste money, fine. But save yourself $10.000.00 or
more.
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Sobriety checkpoints in San Diego.
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