Chula Vista police try to put the brakes on street racing
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Chula Vista police try to put the brakes on street racing
By Mark Arner (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer
3:43 p.m. April 6, 2009
CHULA VISTA – Chula Vista police launched a new program Monday to fight illegal street racing countywide, with help from District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and nine other law enforcement agencies.
Dubbed “Operation Crackdown,” Chula Vista's plan is being funded with a $600,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety. The 18-month program began Friday with an operation focused on Chula Vista motorists.
Police wrote 94 citations Friday night, including two for racing; one for speed exhibition; two for suspended driver's licenses; and two for unlicensed drivers. There also were 17 vehicle impounds and eight arrests.
“This grant will help us put the brakes on street racing,” Dumanis said.
The program is modeled after a disbanded San Diego police program called “Drag Net” that helped curb street racing and attracted international attention. The program started in 2002 and was disbanded in 2007 when funding ran out.
Like Drag Net, Chula Vista's program will seek prosecution not only of motorists convicted of street racing, but also of spectators who watch illegal racing events. Dumanis said she is also pushing for legislation to authorize destruction of vehicles used for illegal racing.
The program will also train 200 peace officers countywide to recognize illegally modified cars. Owners would be cited for the changes.
Dumanis said her staff has handled more than 700 street-racing cases during the past five years, with a 96 percent conviction rate.
Helping with the program will be officers from San Diego, the county Sheriff's Department, the California Highway Patrol, National City, Escondido, Oceanside, La Mesa, El Cajon, Coronado and San Diego State University.
Chula Vista police Capt. Don Hunter said a legal alternative to street racing continues to be offered by a private, nonprofit group called RaceLegal, which hosts races in the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot. The next race is scheduled May 8, from 6 p.m. to midnight. More details are available at www.racelegal.com/ In 2002, there were 16 deaths and 31 serious injuries in San Diego from illegal races, police said. During 2006 and half of 2007, San Diego police say only one death was linked to drag racing.
3:43 p.m. April 6, 2009
CHULA VISTA – Chula Vista police launched a new program Monday to fight illegal street racing countywide, with help from District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and nine other law enforcement agencies.
Dubbed “Operation Crackdown,” Chula Vista's plan is being funded with a $600,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety. The 18-month program began Friday with an operation focused on Chula Vista motorists.
Police wrote 94 citations Friday night, including two for racing; one for speed exhibition; two for suspended driver's licenses; and two for unlicensed drivers. There also were 17 vehicle impounds and eight arrests.
“This grant will help us put the brakes on street racing,” Dumanis said.
The program is modeled after a disbanded San Diego police program called “Drag Net” that helped curb street racing and attracted international attention. The program started in 2002 and was disbanded in 2007 when funding ran out.
Like Drag Net, Chula Vista's program will seek prosecution not only of motorists convicted of street racing, but also of spectators who watch illegal racing events. Dumanis said she is also pushing for legislation to authorize destruction of vehicles used for illegal racing.
The program will also train 200 peace officers countywide to recognize illegally modified cars. Owners would be cited for the changes.
Dumanis said her staff has handled more than 700 street-racing cases during the past five years, with a 96 percent conviction rate.
Helping with the program will be officers from San Diego, the county Sheriff's Department, the California Highway Patrol, National City, Escondido, Oceanside, La Mesa, El Cajon, Coronado and San Diego State University.
Chula Vista police Capt. Don Hunter said a legal alternative to street racing continues to be offered by a private, nonprofit group called RaceLegal, which hosts races in the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot. The next race is scheduled May 8, from 6 p.m. to midnight. More details are available at www.racelegal.com/ In 2002, there were 16 deaths and 31 serious injuries in San Diego from illegal races, police said. During 2006 and half of 2007, San Diego police say only one death was linked to drag racing.
Great, just when I wanna start driving the tC more.
(obviously I don't street race).
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I'm so happy not to be living in the nanny state of CA. I'm all for reducing racing fatalities and dangers to other motorists, but arresting "spectators" and demolishing vehicles is frightning. What happens when the racer is in a borrowed car or one that is the only car for the family? These tactics seem to punish the innocent. And what if I go to Best Buy as a customer in my custom xB, and while I'm coming out of the store some idiot does a burnout in the parking lot. Do i get arrested too since I'm modded, obviously I was a spectator?
Everyone of voting age needs to send your sorry legislators out on their bums in 2010. With the worst housing crisis in the nation, a surge in immagration of both well-intentioned and maligned foriegn nationals, and the close proximity to boder town cartel skirmishes, don't the cops have better stuff to worry about than ricers at Walmart?
Everyone of voting age needs to send your sorry legislators out on their bums in 2010. With the worst housing crisis in the nation, a surge in immagration of both well-intentioned and maligned foriegn nationals, and the close proximity to boder town cartel skirmishes, don't the cops have better stuff to worry about than ricers at Walmart?
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2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
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time to present the present.
8 ) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer hole.
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