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A New Kind of Checkpoint

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

I was driving down La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles last week when traffic slowed to crawl. Something was going on up ahead. Perhaps it was an accident or road construction. At 3 in the afternoon, it couldn?t be checkpoint designed to nab DUI suspects. Turns out it was a checkpoint, but not a DUI or drunk driving checkpoint. The police were looking for unlicensed drivers. And many of them were found. This was an LAPD checkpoint, but similar to ones set up by the CHP , Los Angeles County Sheriff , Riverside Police Department and other law enforcement agencies. California law provides for two misdemeanor offenses for unlicensed driving. California Vehicle Code 12500 VC makes it a crime to drive without a license . This usually applies to drivers who have never obtained a license to begin with, or to persons with out-of-state licenses who move to California but then fail to obtain a California license...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on October 17, 2007 (boomark / email).