Association between alcohol-impaired driving enforcement-related strategies and alcohol-impaired driving |
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Authors: | Julia R. Sanem Darin J. Erickson Patricia C. Rutledge Kathleen M. Lenk Toben F. Nelson Rhonda Jones-Webb Traci L. Toomey |
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Affiliation: | 1. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, United States;2. Department of Psychology, Allegheny College, 520 North Main Street, Meadville, PA 16335, United States |
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Abstract: | All states in the U.S. prohibit alcohol-impaired driving but active law enforcement is necessary for effectively reducing this behavior. Sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols, open container laws, and media campaigns related to enforcement efforts are all enforcement-related strategies for reducing alcohol-impaired driving. We conducted surveys of all state patrol agencies and a representative sample of local law enforcement agencies to assess their use of alcohol-impaired driving enforcement-related strategies and to determine the relationship between these enforcement-related strategies and self-reported alcohol-impaired driving behavior obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We found that sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols, and enforcement of open container laws were associated with a lower prevalence of alcohol-impaired driving but, more importantly, a combination of enforcement-related strategies was associated with a greater decrease in alcohol-impaired driving than any individual enforcement-related activity. In addition, alcohol-impaired driving enforcement-related strategies were associated with decreased alcohol-impaired driving above and beyond their association with decreased binge drinking. Results suggest law enforcement agencies should give greater priority to using a combination of strategies rather than relying on any one individual enforcement activity. |
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Keywords: | Alcohol-impaired driving Enforcement Sobriety checkpoints Saturation patrols Open container laws Latent class analysis |
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