Incident Date:
Tuesday, August 22nd,
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’.
Serious Incidents:
4:24am Silver &
Gambier Robbery
A man left his home on his way to the bus stop when he was
approached by a man holding a gun. The victim told Ingleside Officers Hardy and
Scott the suspect pointed a gun at him, demanded his phone and money, took his
phone but no money, and ran to waiting vehicle that sped away. The victim gave
the officers a description of the suspect and the getaway vehicle. A search
through the neighborhood failed to find the suspect. Report number: 170689021
4:00pm Mission &
Persia Aggravated Assault
A report of a violent assault prompted dispatch to send
Ingleside Officers Hoge, Quinlan, and Siracusa to investigate. The officers talked
to two young men, who told them they were approached by a man, who got out of a
passing car, and hit one of the victims on the arm with a baseball bat. The
suspect and his accomplices then drove away. The victim and his friend walked
to the Excelsior Playground where the suspect again showed up, this time with a
firearm. The victims then ran away to a nearby residence and called police.
Medical personnel treated the victim at the scene for his injuries. Report
number: 170685013
Vehicle and Other Incidents:
01:37am Mission/Geneva Warrant Arrest
12:19pm Bernal
Heights/Folsom Recovered Vehicle
02:30pm 5700
Blk Mission Hit and
Run
03:15pm Ocean/Persia Traffic Collision
04:00pm Unit
Blk Roanoke Burglary
04:00pm 500 Blk
Madrid Threats
06:00pm San
Jose/Bosworth Hit and
Run
06:00pm Unit
Blk Eastwood Stolen
Vehicle
07:10pm Unit
Blk Putnam Warrant
Arrest
