{"id":240836,"date":"2026-05-22T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:58:09","slug":"new-york-state-police-increase-dwi-patrols-this-memorial-day-weekend-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240836\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police Increase DWI Patrols This Memorial Day Weekend | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"New York State Police\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/67a50c2d274ac.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; Law enforcement will step up patrols to target drunk, impaired and reckless driving during Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Police announced that the special enforcement period will run from Friday, May 22 through Monday, May 25 with extra patrols.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should expect sobriety checkpoints and more patrols from State Police and local agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers will use both marked vehicles and concealed identity traffic enforcement vehicles to spot violations.<\/p>\n<p>CITE vehicles blend in with regular traffic but become clearly marked as emergency vehicles when their lights are activated.<\/p>\n<p>During Memorial Day weekend in 2025, troopers arrested 245 people for impaired driving, issued 12,062 tickets, and investigated 774 crashes, including three fatal crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; Law enforcement will step up patrols to target drunk, impaired and reckless driving during Memorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44507,81735,94119,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,8938],"class_list":["post-240836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dwi","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorial-day-patrol","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}