A Chicago alderman on Monday demanded that police crack down on drag racing on Lower Wacker Drive after a driver did donut stunts around spectators who were surrounded by a circle of burning gasoline.
has approved "greatly enhanced" penalties for drag racing and "drifting." That’s the term for, as he put it, "skidding in circles."
With temperatures rising and motorcycle engines revving, Chicago alderpersons approved an ordinance championed by Ald. Pat Dowell empowering Chicago Police Department officers to impound motorcycles, dirt bikes and other "non-highway vehicles" accused of drifting and drag racing. At a press conference at police headquarters Monday afternoon, Police Supt. David Brown said that no one called to report the drag racing as it was happening, but a CPD pod camera did record some video.said she watched the harrowing video.
During a committee hearing last year, then-1st District Cmdr. Jake Alderden told alderpersons that, during warm weather, it’s an "almost everyday occurrence" to have a drag racing subculture of motorcyclists ranging from "20 to over 800" rampaging through downtown, the"We have groups of off-road vehicles … frequently around the museum campus, all through Grant Park, going very close to small children. Most of these motorcycles don’t have license plates displayed.
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