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Program targets specific areas
Published Sat, Aug 2, 2008 (10:08 a.m.)
Updated Sat, Aug 2, 2008 (3:19 p.m.)
If you're traveling tonight along East Bonanza Road, follow the laws — police will be watching you.
In an effort to cut down on violations most likely to cause crashes, Metro Police are conducting a Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Bonanza between North Eastern Avenue and North Nellis Boulevard.
Seven officers will be stepping up enforcement in that area and will focus on drunken driving, red light, right of way, speed and pedestrian violations. Police Sgt. Keith Bowers said officers will be targeting the area around Freedom Park.
"It's a high DUI area. We get tons of DUIs there on Saturday nights," Bowers said. "Residents in that area tend to go there and get drunk and leave the park drunk and we intend to stop them. Plus there are a lot of small bars around in that area."
Officers say that by concentrating on the worst crash locations and targeting the most dangerous violations, they can have the greatest effect on reducing crashes and saving lives.
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Call me a cynic .... isn't this what they're supposed to be doing anyway? I mean, isn't this their job?
Sigh. I live in hell.
Yes it is their job, and yes they are doing it. I don't see what your problem is with this?
If anything it's good to hear that the police are making their presence known, and now you know to stay away from that area tonight, so you don't end up being one of the examples that are being made.
First of all, I wouldn't BE in the situation.
Secondly, I don't get your nasty attitude. For some odd reason, it has been made "news" that police ARE DOING THEIR JOBS.
They ought to be "making their presence known" CONSTANTLY. It's what they DO. They're SUPPOSED TO BE watching for drunk & dangerous drivers. Yet every time I'd drive to work at 5AM all I'd see were drunk drivers heading south on Decatur. Not once did I ever see any of them being pulled over. Never saw a cop give a generally dangerous driver a ticket; not even the certifiable morons who have the WINDSHIELD illegally tinted.
Not once have I ever seen the speeders or the tailgaters or the weaving-in-and-out-of-traffic morons get pulled over. Not once have I seen the blowing-red-lights and stop signs crowd get pulled over.
And I have seen cops WATCH ALL OF THIS HAPPEN.
So yeah, call me a cynic. And yeah, I have a HUGE problem with it. If they did their jobs EVERY DAY this wouldn't have to be NEWS.
I think they did the story because the police ask them to.
They are hoping that the news stories will deter people. Somebody might read the story. Tell their friends. I guess it might put something in the back of their brain not to drink and drive.
I doubt if it has any effect though.
I know, I know and that's the part I agree with. I'm just so tired of seeing these stories "periodically" and then a week later seeing a story about how XX number of teens or twenty-somethings or XX members of a family were killed because of some moron who was speeding or tailgating or blew a red light or a stop sign or was yapping on their cell phone.
And you know you're going to see that story next week. I'm sorry if I seem a little snippy about this but I'm just very, very tired of these "professionals" touting that they're doing their jobs.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
Sigh. As I said, I live in hell.
I'm tired of seeing the morons drive the way they do and the police not doing a darn thing. I've seen more police break the rules of the road out there as well as the regular drivers. I did laugh one morning when the NHP finally pulled over the daily morning terror of the 215. I could never figure out why this guy needed to tailgate, speed, and weave in and out of traffic every single morning.
Patricia is right. Metro do stand by and watch the dangerous driving morons in this town endanger lives.