Sugar Land police will partner with agencies across Texas to target drunk drivers during a special enforcement initiative March 12-21. The Spring Break enforcement effort is funded with a $7,996 Impaired Driving Mobilization Grant, a cooperative effort of the Texas Department of Transportation, the Texas Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement agencies.
“Driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs is not worth the risk,” said Sgt. Wayne Coleman, of SLPD’s traffic division. “You are putting your life and the lives of others on the line.”
The STEP grant provides overtime to staff increased traffic enforcement in targeted areas, an extra resource that does not affect SLPD’s normal operations.
12. March 2010 at 8:51 am
Yeah, another dragnet for folks with an extra 5k they didn’t know they had laying around. Any of you readers want to see something impressive?Go to any one of the county courts and read the docket, it’s mostly DWI cases. I respect the folks that work in our courts but really, it is all DWI. Here is the deal. If you are poor, you sit in the tank until your court date, if you have a job and a cc, then you get to pop it for 5K to get yourself out of the mess. Now….don’t confuse me with someone that supports these yahoos geting smashed and hitting the road, no way. In fact I heard a loud crash the other night off 99 and it woke me up, 2:08am if you can imagine ( I wonder where they were coming from? ), then I heard a car going down the highway with something dragging, it was loud. No police around but you can betcha someone passed out, it a curb and somehow their car still could roll. They were probably stopped but anyway, I don’t like how OUR law enforcement goes after this type of stuff the same time our mayor and county attorneys are getting held up. Focus on the real criminals and yes, if the drivers are really impaired, lock them up.