California DUI Fact Sheet

CALIFORNIA DUI FACT SHEET: 1997 - 2007
CALIFORNIA DUI FACT SHEET: 1997 - 2007 PDF version

	Year
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
DUI Arrest Rate (per 100,000 licensed drivers)	933	908	896	847	803	783	809	792	786	849	863
Total DUI arrests Footnote 1A	191164	188327	188523	181336	176490	177056	183560	180957	180288	197248	203866
Felony DUI arrests Footnote 1A	5568	5330	5242	5476	5647	5859	5856	5646	5962	6191	6264
Misdemeanor DUI arrests Footnote 1A	185596	182997	183281	175860	170843	171197	177704	175311	174326	191057	197602
DUI convictions received to date (by year of arrest) Footnote 2A	142372	144081	149703	144342	140446	139814	144453	143188	140879	148066	153348
Percent convicted of DUI as of Sept. 2007 Footnote 2A	75%	77%	79%	80%	80%	79%	79%	79%	78%	75%	75%
Alcohol-involved reckless driving convictions Footnote 2A	16867	15945	15514	14465	15773	15694	15735	14801	14452	14517	15121
Percent convicted of alcohol reckless as of Sept. 2007 Footnote 2A	8.8%	8.5%	8.2%	8.0%	8.9%	8.9%	8.6%	8.2%	8.0%	7.4%	7.4%
Alcohol-involved fatalities Footnote 3A	1100	1072	1170	1233	1308	1416	1445	1462	1574	1597	1489
% of total fatalities	30.0	31.0	32.8	33.1	33.3	34.2	34.2	35.7	36.6	38.1	37.5
Alcohol-involved injuries Footnote 3A	31189	30985	29833	30971	31806	32013	31322	31538	30810	31099	30783
% of total injuries	10.9	10.7	10.3	10.2	10.4	10.4	10.2	10.4	10.5	11.2	11.5
Drug-involved fatalities Footnote 4A	253	266	290	428	509	639	784	799	880	859	749
% of total fatalities	6.9	7.7	8.2	11.5	13.0	15.6	18.6	19.5	20.4	20.5	18.9
Drug-involved injuries Footnote 4A	1682	1549	1774	1917	2106	2373	2580	2646	2722	2421	2464
% of total injuries	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9

^1AThese totals do not include duplicate cases as originally reported in the Department of Justice, Criminal Justice Statistics Center, MACR data, and as of 2006 the counts for all the years reflect this change.

^2AThese data represent a DMV master file count of the number of DUI abstracts (data received from the courts), by year of violation, minus duplicates. Each year, the DUI conviction totals are updated to include the amended and new abstracts for current and previous years. These additions are also reflected in changes for the percent convicted. These totals do not include conviction abstracts not yet received. Thus, for the most recent years, these figures will underestimate the final conviction totals.

^3AThese figures include overlap with drugs. That is, drugs are also involved in some of these cases.

^4AThese figures include overlap with alcohol. That is, alcohol is also involved in some of these cases.

Beginning with the 2007 report, reporting of drug-involved fatalities is included

CALIFORNIA DUI FACT SHEET: 1997 - 2007 (continued)   Year   1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 TOTAL MANDATORY SUSPENSION/ REVOCATION (S/R) ACTIONS 205462 Footnote 1B 238612 Footnote 1B 236141 240597 231217 236603 241242 239580 247568 339796 Footnote 3B 362859 PRECONVICTION Admin Per Se (APS) Actions 169511 175365 179332 172606 164840 165505 171470 171828 168569 185481 192213 .01 Zero tolerance suspensions 11517 15640 17775 18185 18549 19129 19949 19967 19374 22044 22112 .08 First-offender suspensions 114247 116827 119621 114997 109695 109888 114975 116022 107466 118468 123594 .08 Repeat-offender suspensions 39636 39024 38487 36147 33517 33580 33413 32903 38097 41420 42979 .08 Repeat-offender revocations 4111 3874 3449 3277 3079 2908 3133 2936 3632 3549 3528 Commercial driver actions 4496 4609 4471 4139 4013 3936 3853 3801 3525 2974 2903 Chemical test refusal actions 10110 9935 9435 9433 8841 8772 9399 9353 9599 9315 9581 .01 Test refusal suspensions 134 229 268 270 280 290 341 326 364 419 426 .08 Test refusal suspensions 5865 5832 5718 5886 5482 5547 5925 6091 5603 5347 5627 .08 Test refusal revocations 4111 3874 3449 3277 3079 2908 3133 2936 3632 3549 3528 POSTCONVICTIONFootnote 2B Juvenile DUI suspensions 769 Footnote 1B 1026 Footnote 1B 918 741 714 896 794 838 737 941 1061 First-offender suspensions 4847 Footnote 1B 9588 Footnote 1B 15072 29924 31097 32716 32521 31012 39078 110525 Footnote 3B 124436 Misdemeanor 3834 Footnote 1B 7497 Footnote 1B 13401 28118 29188 30563 30298 28799 36808 108227 Footnote 3B 122102 Felony 1013 Footnote 1B 2091 Footnote 1B 1671 1806 1909 2153 2223 2213 2270 2298 2334 Second-offender S/R actions 22945 Footnote 1B 40238 Footnote 1B 31940 29097 26911 29345 28737 28400 30294 32680 34296 Misdemeanor 22532 Footnote 1B 39065 Footnote 1B 31455 28571 26334 28748 28160 27847 29699 32046 33649 Felony 413 Footnote 1B 633 Footnote 1B 485 526 577 597 577 553 595 634 647 Third-offender revocations 5569 Footnote 1B 9397 Footnote 1B 6573 6163 5727 6171 5953 5581 6720 7649 8063 Misdemeanor 5471 Footnote 1B 9167 Footnote 1B 6452 6015 5585 5996 5758 5429 6537 7424 7830 Felony 98 Footnote 1B 230 Footnote 1B 121 148 142 175 195 152 183 225 233 Fourth-offender revocations 1821 Footnote 1B 2998 Footnote 1B 2306 2066 1928 1970 1767 1921 2170 2520 2790 TOTAL POSTCONVICTION S/R ACTIONS 35951 Footnote 1B 63247 Footnote 1B 56809 67991 66377 71098 69772 67752 78999 Footnote 3B 154315 Footnote 3B 170646

^1BThe 1997/1998 counts reflect backlogged actions from 1997 that were processed in 1998.

^2BThese totals include suspension actions that are associated with lack of compliance with statutory requirements, and include workload counts.

^3BThis count has increased as a result of the law change, effective 09/20/2005, which assigned to DMV the sole responsibility for imposing license actions for all DUI and removed this responsibility from the courts.

^rRevised from prior reports.

 

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