OWI Task Force Nets Three Brookfield, Elm Grove Arrests
In all, a metro-wide sweep the night before Thanksgiving resulted in 16 drunken driving arrests in 214 stops after the enforcement action was heavily publicized in advance.
A program to catch drunken drivers may have done the world one better, in the opinion of local law enforcement agencies. With plenty of advance notice that a dedicated task force of officers would be on the sharp lookout, only a small percentage of traffic stops Wednesday night and into Thursday morning yielded OWI arrests. Police officers would like to believe that in part, that was because of the highly publicized effort to make drivers aware they were being watched — and that they behaved better as a result. The City of Brookfield and Village of Elm Grove each dedicated four patrols to the metro-wide sweep focused on ferreting out intoxicated drivers. The Town of Brookfield had two police officers. Elm Grove's single drunken driving …
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Dinah Van Krevel-Polzin
9:29 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
I appreciate the great lengths the police departments are going to in order to let people know that drinking and driving will not be tolerated in our communities. This is a form of keeping the rest of us safe. Truly appreciated more ›