North Carolina Police operated a "Booze It and Loose It" campaign during the week of St. Patrick's Day (03/11/11 to 03/17/11). N.C. authorities made a total of 1,013 arrests pursuant to the campaign. N.C. Transportation Secretary Gene Conti believes the campaign was a success. He indicated the campaign operated by highway patrol, local sheriff's offices, and local police resulted in over 1,000 DWI arrests.
However, some of the figures from the campaign are a bit troubling without further investigation and/or explanation. Police arrested 124 motorists for DWI in Mecklenburg County. Of the counties surrounding Charlotte, only Cabarrus (26 DWI arrests) had over 20 DWI arrests. Wake County only had 94 DWI arrests.
Mecklenburg and Wake counties are the two most populated counties in North Carolina. Thus, it stands to reason there would be higher incidents of arrests in these counties. However, the numbers do appear to be somewhat skewed / disproportionate.
Some specific statistics from the campaign include:
- Mecklenburg County:
- Checkpoints/patrols: 211
- DWI arrests: 124
- Speeding citations: 652
- Total traffic citations: 2,522
- Cabarrus County:
- Checkpoints/patrols: 15
- DWI arrests: 26
- Speeding citations: 251
- Total traffic citations: 915
- Wake County:
- Checkpoints/patrols: 124
- DWI arrests: 94
- Speeding citations: 815
- Total traffic citations: 2541
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