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It appears that there has been no shortage of alcohol-related high jinks in Tempe in advance of the new semester.
Classes start today, and the Tempe Police Department has been running a “Safe and Sober” campaign, with an emphasis on alcohol-related crimes. The result: 371 arrests in three days.
UPDATE August 27: In week two, the same task force arrested 486 people. Click here for more details.
(Heads up to ASU students: This same task force will be out again tonight through Saturday night.)
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Although not every single one of these arrests involved ASU students, you have to imagine that most of them were.
And with help from seven different police departments — eight, including Tempe PD — here are the stats Tempe PD sent us this morning:
- Total stops: 1,421
- Total citations: 867
- Total arrests: 371
- Minor in possession of alcohol arrests: 111
- Total DUI arrests: 91
- Total calls for loud parties: 54
- Extreme DUIs: 17
- Nuisance notices: 16
- DUIs for drugs: 14
- Party notices, with minors in possession of alcohol: 14
- DUI under the age of 21: 6
- Minor in possession of alcohol, under the age of 18: 5
- Aggravated DUI: 2
- Average blood-alcohol level of DUI suspects: .131
- Partridge in a pear tree: 1
If the youngsters keep this up, maybe they’ll earn back their party-school reputation.
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