Journal article
Unintended reductions in assaults near sobriety checkpoints: A longitudinal spatial analysis
Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, Vol.44, 100567
02/2023
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2023.100567
PMCID: PMC9896375
PMID: 36707194
Abstract
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.
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.
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)].
Sobriety checkpoints were associated with decreased assault incidence, but estimated effect sizes were small and effects did not endure long after checkpoints ended.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Unintended reductions in assaults near sobriety checkpoints: A longitudinal spatial analysis
- Creators
- Jack Seifarth - Columbia UniversityJason Ferris - The University of QueenslandCorinne Peek-Asa - University of IowaDouglas J. Wiebe - University of PennsylvaniaCharles C. Branas - Columbia UniversityAriana Gobaud - Columbia UniversityChristina Mehranbod - Columbia UniversityBrady Bushover - Columbia UniversityChristopher N. Morrison - Columbia University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, Vol.44, 100567
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.sste.2023.100567
- PMID
- 36707194
- PMCID
- PMC9896375
- NLM abbreviation
- Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol
- ISSN
- 1877-5845
- eISSN
- 1877-5853
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000027, name: NIAAA
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2023
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984364514402771
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