The Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn police department announced this week that they received a federal grant for fiscal year 2025 Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program (“STEP”) grant. The money, which is from form president Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastracture bill, will provide funding for additional law enforcement during hight traffic weekends, speficially holidays.
The additional enforcement will allow Oak Law police to implement different programs like ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over,’ ‘Click It or Ticket,’ and ‘Drive High, Get a DUI.’”
The grant year, which runs from Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2025, enables Oak Lawn Police Department to conduct additional enforcement operations, particularly during high-risk periods. These operations will focus on dangerous behaviors that contribute to crashes, such as speeding, impaired driving, distracted driving, failure to yield, disobeying traffic signals and seat belt violations.
We have seen these grants approved for police departments throughout Illinois. The extra enforcement is incredibly helpful to smaller police forces as they have to deal with high levels of traffic on certain weekends. Illinois has seen an uptick in traffic fatalities since the covid pandemic adn extra law enforcement attempting to weed out dangerous driving behavior will hopefully make the streets safer for all of us.
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