Incident
Date:
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017
The next Ingleside Community
meeting will be held at the Miraloma
Club House located at 350 O’Shaughnessy Blvd on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at
7 p.m. There will be light refreshments available to those who come to the
meeting. All are welcome to attend.
We hope to see you there!
This Labor
Day, the San Francisco Police Department
Reminds Citizens to Drive
Sober or Get Pulled Over
In Effort to End
Impaired Driving
The end of
summer is traditionally marked by the Labor Day holiday, a time for our country
to reflect on the hard work of our fellow Americans. The long weekend is
celebrated through picnics, pool parties, and barbecues, as families and
friends enjoy the last few days of summer before fall and winter approach.
Sadly, the Labor Day holiday is also one of the deadliest, with alcohol and
drug impaired drivers endangering themselves and others on America’s roadways.
This year,
the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is partnering with police, Sheriffs
and the CHP across the state to stop impaired drivers and help save lives. The
high-visibility national enforcement campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled
Over, runs from August 18 through September 4, 2017.
The DUI
Enforcement Team will be deployed to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired
drivers during this campaign. A DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint will deploy on
September 1, 2017 between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. in areas with
high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests. These extra officers on the
road, along with routine patrols, are aimed to drastically reduce impaired
driving in our community’s roadways.
Statistics
nationwide show a dangerous trend in impaired driving. According to the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 10,265 people were
killed in drunk-driving crashes in 2015, a three percent rise in deaths over
2014. That’s roughly one person killed every 51 minutes in 2015. That’s the
equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing each year, with no survivors. This is why
SFPD is working to remind drivers that impaired driving is not only illegal, it
is a matter of life and death.
Officers
will be looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. When possible,
specially trained officers will be available to evaluate those suspected of
drug-impaired driving, which now accounts for a growing number of impaired
driving crashes.
In recent
years, California has seen an increase in drug-impaired driving crashes. The
SFPD supports the new effort from the Office of Traffic Safety that aims to
educate all drivers that “DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze.” If you take
prescription drugs, particularly those with a driving or operating machinery
warning on the label, you might be impaired enough to get a DUI. Marijuana use
can also be impairing, especially in combination with alcohol or other drugs,
and can result in a DUI.
Plan your
sober ride home before the party begins as end of summer activities wraps up.
It is never okay to drive impaired. Even if you’ve had one alcoholic beverage,
designate a sober driver or plan to use public transportation to get home
safely.
Drivers are
encouraged to download the Designated Driver VIP, or “DDVIP,” free mobile app
for Android or iPhone. The DDVIP app helps find nearby bars and restaurants
that feature free incentives for the designated sober driver, from free
non-alcoholic drinks to free appetizers and more.
Have family
or a friend who is about to drive buzzed or impaired? Take the keys away and
make arrangements to get your friend home safely. The cost of a ride home is
cheap. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect the impact of a DUI arrest to
include jail time, fines, fees, DUI classes, license suspensions and other
expenses that can exceed $10,000.
Funding for
this DUI operation is provided to the San Francisco Police Department by a
grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, reminding everyone to ‘Report Drunk
Driver – Call 9-1-1’.
Arrests:
There are no arrests to report.
Serious Incidents:
1:39am 900 Blk. Vienna Hot Prowl Burglary
This case points to the dangers of leaving your garage door
remote in your vehicle while parked outside. Ingleside Officers Lozano and
McCall were dispatched to a report of a burglary. The victim told the officers
that the suspect stole two laptop computers and a game console from her garage.
Nearby video surveillance showed the suspect trying several car doors before
getting into the victim’s vehicle parked in her driveway. The suspect rummages
through the vehicle before exiting with her garage door opener. He leaves the
area for a short time before reappearing and opening the garage door. He then
goes inside the garage, takes her property, then exits and runs away south on
Vienna Street. Report number: 170689140
3:30pm Persia &
Mission Attempted Robbery
A 15 year old boy walking on Persia, towards Mission, was
approached by another young man who demanded money. The victim told the suspect
he didn’t have money. The suspect then attempted to search the victim’s pockets,
but that only prompted the victim to push the suspect away. That push led to
punches and kicks between the two young men before a passing motorist started
blaring her horn and shouting “stop it”. That prompted the young suspect to run
toward Mission and board an outbound Muni bus. The victim walked to Ingleside
Station and reported the incident to Police Services Aid Bautista. The victim
declined medical treatment. Report number: 170688506
Vehicle and Other Incidents:
07:39am Bayshore/Arleta Traffic Collision
08:05pm 500 Blk
Chenery Attempted Theft from Vehicle
11:30pm Castro/29th
Street Traffic
Collision
11:42pm Unit
Blk Florentine Battery
02:30pm Ocean/San
Jose Hit and Run
04:00pm 300 Blk
Gambier Vandalism to
Property
05:30pm 1500
Blk Sunnydale Dog Bite
05:33pm 4900
Blk Mission Trespassing
06:34pm Mission/30th
Street Vandalism to MUNI
Bus
10:40pm 3200
Blk Folsom Stolen
Vehicle
