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Background: About 30% of all motor vehicle fatalities in the United States are associated with alcohol‐impaired motor vehicle crashes. Arrests for drinking and driving (Driving under the influence [DUI]) are 1 of the most important deterrence actions to minimize DUI. This paper examines trends and population‐level correlates of drinking driving arrests (DUI) from 2005 to 2017 in California. Methods: Arrest data come from the Monthly Arrest and Citation Register compiled by the California Department of Justice. Sociodemographic and community characteristic data from the U.S. Census, alcohol outlet density, and distance to the U.S.–Mexico border from Law Enforcement Reporting Areas (LERA) centroids were aggregated at the level of 499 LERA contributing to the report. Reported arrest rates were related to area sociodemographic characteristics using hierarchical Bayesian Poisson space–time models. Results: Both among men and women rates showed an upward trend until 2008, decreasing after that year. DUI arrest rates were greater among Hispanics than Whites for the 2 younger age groups, 18 to 29 (p < 0.001) and 30 to 39 years (p < 0.001). DUI arrest rates in LERA areas are positively related to proximity to the California/Mexico border; a higher percent of bar/pub outlets; a higher percent of Hispanic population; a higher percent of population 18 to 29, 30 to 39, and 40 to 49 years of age; a higher percent of US‐born population; a higher percent of population with annual income of $100,000 or more; a higher percent of population 150% below the federal poverty line; and a higher level of law‐enforcement activities. Conclusions: Results of this analysis of spatial correlates of DUI arrests overlap well with the literature on individual‐level data and arrest rates. The decrease in arrest rates as distance to the California/Mexico border increases is potentially associated with the greater availability of alcohol in the border area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Follow-up some researches, the author publishes a number of 30 unedited documents about the way how tens of Jews have been passed over the Horthy's Hungarian border into Romania by the local guides, specifically inhabitants from the southern part of Bihor County. The result of such risky initiatives was to rescue these Jews from certain death. It is to be noted that in the documents we refer to, ( found at present in the funds of the Bihor County's Department of the National Archives) the names of the Jews who reached Romania by crossing clandestinely the Hungarian-Romanian border as well some of their biographic data are recorded. Also, on their basis they can establish the "ways" through they have been guided to arrive in Romania, some names of those involved in this activity, the manner in which the border guards and the gendarmes acted. It is noted the tendency of most people succeeding in crossing the border turning to Arad, Timisoara, important centres where constitutions of Jews have functioned (as, for example, the rabbi of Arad), who tried the best to help those being in an extremely difficult situation. In general, these documents contain information about the tragic condition of the Jews in Hungary (on whom they applied, with hardness difficult to be understood, the "final solution"), in April-May 1944, the sequence of time which these documentary sources of great value refer to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]