State Police and local law enforcement agencies are participating in a special Thanksgiving holiday enforcement initiative to deter unsafe driving behaviors. The enforcement, which runs now through Sunday, November 26th, will involve State Police supplementing regular patrols with fixed sobriety checkpoints, an underage drinker enforcement, and the "Operation Hang Up" initiative, which targets distracted drivers by utilizing Concealed Identity Traffic Enforcement patrol vehicles to better locate drivers talking or texting on handheld devices. In 2016, troopers arrested 245 drivers for DWI, issued 5,417 speeding tickets, 673 tickets for distracted driving, and 265 tickets for violations of New York's Move Over Law.
