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Saturday to 2:30 a.m. The driver was instructed to walk heel to toe for nine steps, turn around and walk back. Bradley held up a finger and the driver followed it with her eyes. If drivers passed the brief test, they were waved through. But with the help of one of the woman's friends standing nearby, Bradley administered the test.

“We’re going to do our best to keep the people safe this holiday season,” said Vicki Cervantes, a San my blog Bernardino police traffic sergeant, who was also working a checkpoint Friday night.

At a brightly lit intersection, an officer asked to see a driver’s license, gave a subtle sniff of the motorist’s breath and looked for any obvious signs of intoxication. Like anyone else out hunting, officers have to look where the highest concentration of targets is likely to be. Let's see what we get," Bradley said.

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Those answers are never clear ahead of time, but this is actually an ideal shift for Bradley.

Next, a balance test. Or they'll do the opposite: Stop at a green light, or lingering too long at a stop sign as though they are waiting for the light to change.. Fred Alvarez, citing the abundance of parties this time of year.

Friday night’s checkpoint in Ontario was one of 58 DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols police in San Bernardino County have scheduled for December as part of an aggressive “Winter Holiday DUI Campaign.”

This doesn't account for other potential expenses, including lost work time, any bail fees, or the costs of injury or damage a driver convicted of a DUI might have caused.

These are the kinds of cases Bradley hopes DUI patrols can prevent. He pulled the yellow box containing the testing kit out of the back of his Explorer.

The shift ran over time by two hours, keeping Bradley away from home and a warm bed until after 4:30 a.m. It didn't work.

A few minutes after 6:30 p.m., Bradley was seatbelted into his cruiser and read more scanning the treeline in Lawrence Park with a car-mounted flashlight. Loud music blares through the speakers from the FM 98.5 Rock radio station.

For example, San Bernardino hosted 18 or 20 checkpoints in 2013 and 12 in 2014, according to Cervantes.

Bradley knew it was time for a Breathalyzer read more test. Bradley approached her and began a round of simple tests.

Bradley has lived in Lodi for 10 years, but has been a member of the Lodi Police Department for 14 years. Her foot hit the ground several times, and she didn't estimate the time passing properly.

“The holidays are kind of the high peak,” said Ontario Cprl. She made it about seven steps, then clumsily lost count and turned too soon.

First, the eye test. Bradley arrested her, called in backup to deal with her car, and took the woman to the police station on Elm Street.

Now he's a patrol officer, a member of the auxiliary bike team and a public information officer.

But what is read more he looking for? What are these drivers doing that indicate to Bradley that they may have had one too many drinks to be out on the road?

While on that Saturday night patrol, Bradley noticed groups of people walking home from Downtown, and climbing into cabs outside of bars and tasting rooms.

During the patrols, officers drive around town, usually in high-trafficked areas or near nightlife, and search for driver’s showing signs of impairment.

AN ARREST IN THE FIELD

Ontario and San Bernardino hosted checkpoints Friday but the majority of the 58 enforcement details are saturation patrols, reflecting a larger trend of departments choosing patrols over checkpoints, which require more manpower and space.

To Bradley, that's a job well done.

Both the checkpoints and patrols do not decrease the amount of officers on regular patrol. Sunday. His final tally for the night was five cars pulled over, two DUI suspects arrested and two arrests made for outstanding warrants.

When the driver pulled a fast left turn into the Franco's Pizza parking lot, failing to yield to oncoming traffic and forcing other drivers to slam on their brakes, Bradley flipped on his lights and followed.

"If I don't locate a DUI, it makes me wonder how many I missed," he said.

Due to a language barrier and the woman's inebriated state, it was difficult to explain the test. For DUIs, that's the major thoroughfares of Lodi.

That makes for a long and unforgiving workday. Would these long hours lead to any arrests? And what other kinds of criminal activity might Bradley run into while pulling over suspicious vehicles?

"I can only assume people are walking because they want to be safe, and (don't want) to risk their lives or other people's lives by driving," he said. The grants pay officers overtime to work the enforcement operations.

While heading south on Cherokee Lane from Turner Road at around 8 p.m., Bradley spotted a car that showed at least three signs the driver could be under the influence.

"I enjoy doing (DUI patrols) because I think when cops arrest a DUI suspect, they are preventing a felony from occurring," Bradley said.

They're driving badly. If not, police escorted them across the street for further questioning.

If any other officers on the shift pulled over a drunken driving suspect, they were instructed to call Bradley and get him on the case.

A woman in a black jacket and jeans stepped out of the driver's seat, unaware that a police officer had pulled up behind her. Ryan Morales will be arraigned on counts of second-degree murder, gross vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence.

That's the organization that funds dozens of DUI checkpoints every year, where police officers set up shop in the middle of the road to check licenses and talk to drivers face-to-face.

Bradley is happy to keep pulling dangerous drivers off the road, no matter what monetary costs they might have to pay. San Bernardino tends to have eight to 10 officers working the patrols, costing roughly $7,400 in grant money per operation, according to Cervantes.

The federal government funds the checkpoints and San Bernardino’s grant, Cervantes said, requires them to hold at least one enforcement operation during the holiday season.

HITTING THE STREETS

A Lodi man is currently awaiting trial for an October 2013 collision that took the lives of six members of the Miranda family: the father, the mother, her unborn child and three young children. "That makes me feel like we as police officers are doing our jobs and getting the right messages out."

"It is one of my favorite activities that I really hope one day I don't have to do anymore," Bradley said.

But when Lodi police Cpl. Then Bradley slowly moved his finger toward her nose and watched as the woman tried to keep her eyes focused on it. The woman stood on one leg while facing upward with her eyes closed and counting out 30 seconds. Eric Bradley climbs into the front seat of his department-issued Ford Explorer, he has a different mission in mind: to locate potentially dangerous drivers and get them off the road.

“There’s generally more arrests on patrols,” she said.

There, she was booked into the jail for a few hours. During his time on the police force, he has served on patrol, worked gang enforcement and spent more than six years as a member of various investigative units.

He compared being on patrol to a kind of urban hunting trip. Their 58 details are part of 338 checkpoint and saturation patrols that will occur this holiday season in San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange and Ventura counties.

When the average citizen gets behind the wheel, the focus is all about the destination -- getting from Point A to Point B.

The woman's result was well over the legal limit of 0.08 blood-alcohol content, even after several tests. Or tried to. Back on the road, Bradley pulls over to grab a burrito from Taqueria El Grullense on Sacramento Street, then pulls into a quiet lot on Lockeford Street to watch traffic and eat dinner. His time was paid for by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety.

Saturation patrols, in contrast, send the officers out to streets, allowing them to concentrate just on the drivers who show signs of intoxication.

There's free patrol, where he drives up and down read more Ham Lane, Kettleman Lane, Cherokee Lane read more and Lower Sacramento Road, as well as a few of the busier side streets and through Downtown.

While on patrol, Bradley searches for intoxicated drivers using a kind of hybrid technique.

"It's a full moon out tonight behind those clouds. Ontario generally staffs between four and 13 officers for a saturation patrol. Sunday, Bradley's entire focus was on watching for erratically moving cars and assessing potentially intoxicated drivers.

Or maybe it means the police department is doing well in educating the public.

Oh, and one meth pipe thrown out the window of a car just before Bradley pulled it over.

The only thing separating a misdemeanor DUI and a felony offense is that the misdemeanor cases don't hurt anyone else, he said.

San Bernardino County’s operations are part of a larger crackdown on impaired drivers. That means they might take a very wide or a very tight turn, sometimes sideswiping another vehicle.

Between moments of adrenaline-fueled activity, this is the shift: staying calm and watching closely.

Finally, a walking test. Depending on a court's decision, the woman could face between four days and six months in county jail, $1,800 to $4,000 in fines and penalties, three to five years of probation and a required class of three, six or nine months.

Thanks continue to these patrols and the ever-watchful eyes of officers on patrol, Lodi police arrested 282 people on DUI charges in 2013.

Then there's sit-and-wait, where Bradley parks in a quiet lot on a busy street and closely watches cars passing by.

From 6:30 p.m. He was promoted to corporal in February. A report had come in of an intoxicated man walking near the park, but there was no one around who matched the description.

Sometimes DUI suspects will stop past the limit line at an intersection or run a red light. It could potentially save lives, he said.

On a recent Saturday night, Bradley took on an extra shift to conduct a DUI saturation patrol. Drunken drivers tend to be incapable of maintaining a steady speed, and have a hard time judging distances