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DUI Arrests Grow to 97 in Countywide Crackdown

The figures from Sunday night jumped 35 percent, from 60 to 97 arrests for DUI-related arrests largely in Gilroy, Mountain View, San Jose, Campbell and Morgan HIll.

 

DUI arrests arrests increased by 35 percent on the third day of a holiday anti-DUI campaign conducted by Santa Clara County law enforcement agencies, the county Sheriff's Office reported Monday.

On the third day of the Winter Holiday Anti-DUI Crackdown, law enforcement agencies stretching from Gilroy to Palo Alto, arrested 37 people for driving 

under the influence of alcohol or drugs, bringing the cumulative total to 97 arrests.

Still, it is down from last year. In 2011, 113 DUI arrests occurred during the same three-day time period, said Sheriff's Office Sgt. Jose Cardoza, in a written report.

Over the course of the next several days of the 19-day campaign, extra local DUI Saturation Patrols will be deployed inthe cities of San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, & San Jose State.

On Friday December 21, DUI checkpoints will be conducted in the cities of Gilroy and San Jose.

Figures for Cupertino, Los Altos Hills, and Saratoga, which contract with the Sheriff's Office for police services are contained within the Sheriff's Office figures in the table below, and are not broken out. All CHP figures reflect a wide area covered by each CHP office, and are not limited to the city named.

Agency

Dec. 14

Dec. 15

Dec. 16

Total

Campbell P.D.

3

3

2

8

CHP-Gilroy

3

N/R

2

5

CHP – San Jose

3

1

11

15

Gilroy P.D.

0

1

1

2

Los Altos P.D.

1

N/R

0

1

Los Gatos P.D.

N/R

N/R

0

0

Milpitas P.D.

1

1

0

2

Morgan Hill P.D.

4

1

1

6

Mountain View P.D.

3

4

3

10

Palo Alto P.D.

3

1

N/R

4

San Jose P.D.

2

14

15

31

Santa Clara P.D.

N/R

N/R

0

0

Santa Clara Sheriff

1

6

0

7

Sunnyvale P.D.

1

2

1

4

S.J. State Univ. P.D.

1

0

1

2

Daily Total

26

34

37

 

Cumulative Total

 

 

 

97

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Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
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David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.