Avoid the 21

Avoid the 13, Avoid the 21 and Avoid the 23 are holiday law enforcement campaigns against drinking and drugged drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Livermore is a member of Avoid the 21.

Together we present a solid wall of 6,700 officers from 60 police departments in Santa Clara Valley, in Alameda County and on the Peninsula.

We hold sobriety checkpoints, staff regional, high-intensity, saturation Strike Teams; flood the freeways with CHP officers, add overtime hours, form special departmental teams and emphasize DUI with officers on regular beats. We run an aggressive, multiple-award-winning news bureau that regularly achieves media saturation. We also conduct four-day Memorial Day and Labor Day campaigns.

During the Last ten winter holiday campaigns, Livermore Police made 910 DUI arrests.

In the last ten winter holiday campaigns the 21 police agencies in Alameda counties made 7,304 DUI arrests.

Routine DUI Traffic Stop? No such thing as Avoid Campaigns
In Livermore, a man was out celebrating the birth of his son by getting loaded at a bar on Avoid the 21 Strike Team night, Dec. 21. He decided to drive to another bar in town, taking along a man and woman he'd just met. Officer Jeff Seymour saw him driving 60 mph down a residential street and tried to pull him over. Four other Livermore units, fresh from the Strike Team dinner, responded to the call. The man lost control and drove through the Stovepipe Delicatessen downtown, injuring himself and his two passengers, one critically. He was sent to jail on Christmas Eve on two felony DUI counts, missing his son's first Christmas.