@article{ref1,
title="Unintended reductions in assaults near sobriety checkpoints: a longitudinal spatial analysis",
journal="Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology",
year="2023",
author="Seifarth, Jack and Ferris, Jason and Peek-Asa, Corinne L. and Wiebe, Douglas J. and Branas, Charles C. and Gobaud, Ariana and Mehranbod, Christina and Bushover, Brady and Morrison, Christopher N.",
volume="44",
number="",
pages="e100567-e100567",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Sobriety checkpoints are a form of proactive policing in which law enforcement officers concentrate at a point on the roadway to systematically perform sobriety tests for all passing drivers. We investigated whether sobriety checkpoints unintentionally reduce assaults in surrounding areas. <br><br>METHODS: Exposures of interest were sobriety checkpoints conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department between 2012 and 2017. Comparison units were matched 1:2 to sobriety checkpoints, selected as the same point location temporally lagged by exactly ±168 hours. The outcome was the density of police-reported assaults around the checkpoint location. <br><br>RESULTS: In mixed effects regression analyses, assault incidence was lower when sobriety checkpoints were in operation compared to the same location ±168 hours [b= -0.0108, 95% CI: (-0.0203, -0.0012)]. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Sobriety checkpoints were associated with decreased assault incidence, but estimated effect sizes were small and effects did not endure long after checkpoints ended.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1877-5845",
doi="10.1016/j.sste.2023.100567",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2023.100567"
}