 The Focused Selective Enforcement (FSE) projects generally employ more than 125 additional state troopers in week-long DUI, seat belt and aggressive driving enforcement during statewide selective enforcement campaigns. These projects have demonstrated the effectiveness that intensive selective enforcement can have. In some cases the Alabama Department of Public Safety has been joined by Mississippi and Tennessee highway patrols and Alabama sheriff and police departments in the initiative to save lives and increase traffic safety. During these intensive efforts, every available trooper are on patrol during the week-long blitz, enforcing traffic laws and assisting motorists statewide. Troopers from every rank and every division, including Driver License and ABI are enlisted for this effort. Troopers utilize proven enforcement initiatives, including line patrols, checkpoints and saturation patrols, concentrating their efforts on high-traffic, high-crash corridors. In addition to DUI, seat belt and child restraint enforcement, troopers target other driving behaviors that place motorists at greatest risk. These are speeding, failure to yield the right of way, following too closely, and driver inattention.
There were dramatic reductions in fatalities during the FSE intensive enforcement details. The reason for this is illustrated by the graphic below: an average reduction in impact speed of 10 MPH will cut fatalities in half.
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