Enhancing Enforcement Strategies
From Fall 1995Volume II, Number 3
Enhancing Enforcement Strategies for Juvenile Impaired Driving Due to Drug
and Alcohol Abuse, spearheaded by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)
with funding from NHTSA and OJJDP, is an ambitious effort to develop a model
program to reduce juvenile impaired driving. PERF is a national membership
organization of both police departments and police executives dedicated
to the improvement of police practice.
PERF created a program model whose core is a community-based DWI policy
group including representatives from law enforcement, juvenile justice,
and treatment agencies as well as schools, business, and advocacy groups.
This program model ensures that all parts of the justice system are involved
in effectively and fairly identifying, adjudicating, and providing treatment
to youth involved in drinking and driving.
PERF selected five communities already engaged in activities targeted at
reducing drunk driving among juveniles that would provide a sound base on
which to implement the new model. These included Albany, New York; Astoria,
Oregon; Hampton, Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. (See Albany
County STOP-DWI). PERF produced a curriculum that can be used to replicate
this program model and utilizes personnel from the demonstration projects
to provide technical assistance to other communities. Cliff Karchmer, PERF
project director, reports that this peer-to-peer assistance has proven invaluable.
For more information on Enhancing Enforcement Strategies for Juvenile Impaired
Driving Due to Drug and Alcohol Abuse, contact Cliff Karchmer at the Police
Executive Research Forum, 2300 M Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. Phone
(202) 466-7820.
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