Police Plan North Hills Sobriety Checkpoint Saturday Night

Sobriety and driver license checkpoints will be set up by police in three Los Angeles neighborhoods including North Hills this weekend.

A checkpoint will be in place between 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday on Roscoe Boulevard at Gloria Avenue in North Hills.

Checkpoints will also be operated Friday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Hyperion Avenue at Scotland Street in Silver Lake, Hollywood Boulevard at Orange Grove Avenue in Hollywood, and from 6 p.m. to midnight on Western Avenue at 39th Street in South Los Angeles, Los Angeles police said.

Funding for the checkpoints comes from a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

"Research shows that crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough," according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement.