Crime & Safety

DUI Arrests: How Does Darien Stack Up Against Other Towns?

Statistics from the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists show which police departments in the area made the most DUI arrests per officer in 2012.

The Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists released its annual survey of Illinois arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol on Tuesday.

The Darien Police Department made 87 DUI arrests in 2012, 2.35 arrests per sworn officer in the Department. That number is less than in neighbors Downers Grove (3.92 per officer) and Willowbrook (2.67 per officer), but more than in Woodridge (2.04 per officer.)

The survey contains 2012 arrest data for all Illinois counties and for nearly all towns. The above chart shows the data for west-Chicago towns, sorted by DUI arrest rate per sworn officer.

“One reason AAIM continues to survey and report the number of impaired driving arrests throughout Illinois because traffic safety advocates believe that drunk drivers who are arrested are the fortunate ones," AAIM Board Vice President and crash survivor, Marti Belluschi said in a press release.

"In our impaired driving prevention programs, we always remind people that if they are driving drunk they are lucky if it is a cop that stops them, rather than a tree, another car or a small child."

The Village of Itasca had the highest arrest rate per officer in the entire state of Illinois (11.48). The City of Naperville had the second highest overall number of arrests (662), surpassed only by Rockford.


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