Street Racing And The Law Enforcement Response
Street Racing And The Law Enforcement Response – Cruel street racing action on Anna Street in Compton. Until recently street racing was not included in police statistics on fatalities. Photo: Lawrence K Ho/LA Times via Getty ImagesView image full screen
Cruel street racing action on Anna Street in Compton. Until recently street racing was not included in police statistics on fatalities. Photo: Lawrence K Ho/LA Times via Getty Images
Street Racing And The Law Enforcement Response
Street racing, inspired by the movies, takes on a second life in the Inland Empire, where opportunities for young people are few and far between.
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It’s just another summer Friday night in California’s Inland Empire, the dusty east side of Los Angeles where mostly young men get their kicks from setting up street races on lonely roads.
Sometimes, these illegal car races are organized events, with a heavy bank and many additional vehicles to block the designated route and create an early warning system in case the police show up.
This time, though – by all accounts – there was a stirring, daring exchange between two cars speeding off into the sunset along a lonely stretch of highway 60. One car, according to to the police, the new model is a Honda Civic. The other was a white BMW with five passengers including a woman who was seven months pregnant and her fiancé.
All of them are 21 or younger. All were driven from San Bernardino, a fortified, Latino city 20 miles to the north.
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Two miles outside of Moreno Valley, just beyond the Walmart neighborhood and the first rows of local homes, the BMW hit a concrete highway divider and overturned. The two young men previously ran through the metal of the car and the broken glass, police said, and landed on the partition where officers found their bodies.
The young couple, 20-year-old Airyana Luna and 21-year-old Valentino Ramos, died in the back seat. The fifth passenger, a 19-year-old woman, escaped with minor cuts and scrapes on her arms.
Ten days later, investigators are still piecing together what happened – and urgently looking for the Civic’s occupants. As they always do when they press street racing, they are interviewing the witnesses they can touch and hitting social media – often street racing dies.
“We’re hoping someone will come forward and tell us what happened,” said Sergeant David Robles of the California Highway Patrol.
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It’s an alarming cry from law enforcement in a part of California where street racing — inspired by the Fast and the Furious movies, and no less accessible to young people — has grown in popularity. Police say they get calls about street racing every day. Sometimes they stumble upon them and break them. At times, street racers will go out of their way to block their way to give the racing cars a chance to pass.
In May, a Honda Accord that was driving the wrong way on a highway two miles south of Moreno Valley collided with a car coming down a hill, at two sons aged six and eight died.
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In 2016, a street racer collided with a UPS delivery truck on a highway six miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, sending the truck airborne and then exploding on impact to two other vehicles. Three people were killed and four others were injured.
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Sometimes, it’s not the race, but the cars that do bad tricks. In late 2015, more than 100 people gathered at the same industrial site where the UPS truck exploded to watch the drivers work the nuts. One of the vehicles collided with another car killing three people, including a 15-year-old boy.
Some relatives of the victims have formed pressure groups to stop young people from participating in street races – and to call on law enforcement to stop them. “We strongly believe that no parent should have to go through the terrible and unnecessary pain of burying their child,” one group, Street Racing Kills, said.
Police are struggling to track down street racers – a phenomenon not included in his statistics on violent accidents and deaths. Hundreds of people have died in street racing in the Los Angeles area since 2000, but no one knows for sure.
The California road watcher started tracking street racing only in 2016. (Moreno Valley is in nearby Riverside County.) The so-called “take-off” races — when cars block public streets — involve 30 to 40 cars, sometimes more. more than that.
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Sergeant Robles said the patrol’s riverside office has set up a task force that monitors popular race spots, in addition to responding to calls.
“There will be competition across the region,” he said. “Some of the best places are intersections in remote areas – places where the population is small, there is no traffic and there are no laws.”
When the hunters stay close to the cities, the police have a chance to catch them. Last week, authorities in Riverside — including the highway patrol, county sheriff’s office and city police — conducted an emergency operation in response to the Moreno Valley crash. They impounded eight vehicles and made eight arrests.
The Riverside area, however, is vast, stretching more than 150 miles across the Colorado Desert to the Arizona border. Video shows the moment chaos erupted in a busy area near homes and businesses in South Fort Worth Sunday night.
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Around 10:30 p.m., dozens stopped traffic for drivers doing game work and turned onto Berry Street and Hemphill Street to their playground.
“You hear the screeching of tires, and all I was thinking was, oh my God, somebody’s going to happen,” said Sharon Smith.
Smith told NBC 5 that Sunday’s takedown is one of the few he’s heard about since he moved to the area two months ago.
“Will one of these kids get into our house and kill us?” he said.
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“You have a lot of things going on. People are just trying to show up and show up, but this doesn’t happen here in Fort Worth,” said Fort Worth Police PIO Buddy Calzada.
Calzada said the office has been getting more calls about taking over lanes and competition between spring break and the summer break.
The agency has focused on driving enforcement, in part, with the help of laws passed last year to strengthen penalties for those involved.
“We work with all of our units in the department. Our team will help us, our response unit. There are many leads, many arrests,” he said.
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The video shows in the early hours of Sunday night just before police arrived and a witness caught in traffic said this silver SUV drove into the crowd ahead. when someone else fired a gun.
“Anyone who wants to race illegally, is a distributor in our streets? Here is a real thief. You will go from zero to arrest in minutes,” said Calzada.
But doing so has come with challenges, and the department says the community needs help, encouraging those who see something to come forward.
“Everyone who is calling us, please send us your video and evidence because we can get these criminals off your streets,” he said.
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A fire is fired in the middle of the blocked net in the area of the dangerous “side view”. Aurora, CO, officers responded to this crime scene as part of the city’s efforts to prevent street racing and the dangers it presents to the community. Street racing events often cause injuries to drivers, spectators, and members of the public. (Photo: Aurora PD)
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At many street racing events, young people stand in a circle in a tunnel with their cars parked next to them, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, and dancing, blocking access to the road. For them it is a great party, but these parties are very dangerous