Friday, October 2, 2020

Jackson Cracking Down on Drag Racing

JPD issued the following statement.

In recent weeks, the Jackson Police Department has received numerous calls from citizens in reference to multiple automobiles driving careless and reckless on city streets in “convoys”.

Starting immediately, Jackson Police will conduct an operation that will target this in-appropriate behavior. If anyone is caught, you will be charged with careless driving or reckless driving, your vehicle will be towed and appropriate citations will be issued.

If you are aware of this activity or you witness this activity, call the Jackson Police Department at 601-960-1234.

Kingfish note: Don't get our hopes up. The hourly drag races on Old Canton Road are actually starting to acquire some character.

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is embarrassing. How does behavior get to a point where it an issue to begin with?

Anonymous said...

If this is successful, they will consider cracking down on carjackings, shootings, and other mayhem.

Anonymous said...

I think this is a good idea since the city now has the murder rate under control. Where is there a stretch of road without potholes that can facilitate a drag race? Also, what time of day(or night) are these being held?

Anonymous said...

@7:24 - Because, JPD stopped enforcing traffic laws a long time ago, so the morons get more and more brave. I've seen it twice within the last year on Meadowbrook where a car has run the intersection of Meadowbrook/Brook Dr. in front of a JPD officer who looked the other way.

Anonymous said...

Jackson version of Donkmaster.

Anonymous said...

Come on down to Livingston Rd behind the old Jackson Mall on any weekend night. It is a party!! Racing, drinking, gambling and drugs... Cops don't do or say a thing.

Anonymous said...

They need to crack down on the folks driving from Canton to Jackson or vice versa doing 100+ daily. Every time I'm on 55 I am passed by some ratchet vehicle that doesn't seem fit to do 40 on a backroad zooming past at 100+.

Anonymous said...

Anything goes in Jackson. The cops are lazy and selectively enforce the law.

More talk. No action. The place is a war zone regardless of what narrative Marshall and Donna want to push.

Anonymous said...

I blame the cable news channels that previousky aired science and history but now glorify illegal street racing and amish gangsters.

Anonymous said...

Based on the number of speeders there's been drag racing on I-220 for years now.

Anonymous said...

You people act as if you haven't experienced the thrill of drag racing for cash or titles. What do you people do? Sit around and watch TV after work? Get a life! Thankfully Chuck has JPD driving around in "green" cruisers and they can't catch Mustang Cobra or Z28

Kingfish said...

They are now drag racing down Old Canton Road, Ridgewood, and other streets all the time. They aren't just racing on the highways anymore.

Anonymous said...

Isn't I-220 "Indy south?"

Anonymous said...

I live within earshot of the Waterworks Curve and I-55. Every night I hear motorcycles going in excess of 100 mph. It pisses me off when this goes on every night with no impunity while I get a ticket for going 48 in a 35 mph speed zone.

Anonymous said...

solution in 2 words: speed bumps

nothing as fun as watching a 97 civic go airborne

Anonymous said...

Drag racing? I thought they just were reading to kids in the library.

Anonymous said...

An unintended consequence of repairing and repaving the city's major roads.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone remember "Top Gear"?
I recall that they did their racing and time trials at an airport. The city has an opportunity to get some use out of Hawkin's Field. Designate a few nights a week for free drag racing on the unused tarmac.

Anonymous said...

10:54, something tells me your math is suspect when you claim that Jackson has a higher murder rate than “the more [sic] dangerous city in the world.”

In your defense, this certainly wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen commenters on this site completely bend or disregard facts because they get a kick out of making Jackson look worse than it is.

In fact, that seems to be par for the course with you people.

Anonymous said...

@10:54 -- Jackson is among the worst for sure. But, you need to check your math. 96 homicides year-to-date with a population of 160,000, equates to 60 per 100,000.

Anonymous said...

Get where you are going 10:54 but your math is wrong. Nonetheless, at the current 2020 rate projection and 164,422 Jackson should end the year approximately 6th on that list.

Anonymous said...

Why is it the JPD's job to crack down on "inappropriate" behavior? Have they not been to a St. Paddy day parade?

Anonymous said...

Not to worry. Why waste the effort now.

Hell, the zoo is going to open soon. Once it does, all these folks with nothing to do but to race up and down the city streets will be able to go to the zoo and spend the day there. And its going to be in West Jackson where it belongs. Everything is good - BabyChock has it all under control.

No more crime. No more dangerous driving in the city. All will be great. Just wait, its coming.

Anonymous said...

Jackson's Cracking

You could've just left the headline there.

Another accurate headline would be:

Jackson is crumbling like stale cornbread

Anonymous said...

I stand corrected on my math. If Jackson is on track for 110 homicides in 2020, at a population of about 165,000, that's approximately 73 homicides per 100,000. Even with the correction, that put Jackson in 1st place nationally, and just ahead of #7 wold-wide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

Note: the world-wide chart only lists cities with a population of at least 300,000, so Jackson doesn't qualify to be counted on it. I only use it by way of comparison.

Thanks to all for the correction (even the dick at 11:18).

-10:54

Anonymous said...

The dips and humps on OCR make it especially fun. You hit one of those doing 100+ mph and you’re gonna end up in someone’s bedroom.

Anonymous said...

11:49 AM
Wow. Even with the erroneous math it's just a rounding error. Can't even get out of the top 10.

Anonymous said...

I wonder how much of JPD inaction is actually Command orders to stand down. And I wonder how much of that is coming from the Mayor. I totally see a The Wire type situation happening in Jackson.

Anonymous said...

Lawd have mercy,

Drag races have been a part of USA teenage culture since Henry Ford started producing his Model T.

Hell, we used to drag race down Wayneland Drive back in the 70's.

( That was after we got bored hanging out Maywood Mart . . . and even getting bored driving down to
South Jackson to see what the Hoopla was about cruisin' McDowel Rd.)

Anonymous said...

"Drag racing? I thought they just were reading to kids in the library. "

Don't worry, 10:46. At least one of us out here appreciates your joke ;-)

Anonymous said...

Always fun to be on I-55 going 70-75 and have two or three pass you leaving you behind so quickly it seems like they are doing 90.

Even more fun when they are doing that in traffic, weaving and changing lanes constantly. I had one pass me and go onto the shoulder of the I-55 To I20 merge the other day.

Always gives me a good feeling to see such excellent drivers in action when they don't swipe or rear end a car in front of them and kill people.

Anonymous said...

I live in Belhaven. I hear people racing on the interstate at least once a week. The Mayor, etc. need to get with the picture.

Anonymous said...

9:58 How do you "hear" a motorcycle going in excess of 100 MPH? High RPM in the right gear at 60 sounds just like high RPM at 120. And being a rider myself, and going around that particular curve often, above 100 MPH nightly, while not impossible, would be highly unlikely without regular fatalities considering the total lack of riding skill and protective gear of the average Jackson sport bike rider. I don't doubt they're speeding, and riding recklessly, but at least be realistic in your assumptions.

Anonymous said...

The wannabe NASCAR drivers on I-55 are running rampant. Every time I travel from County Line Road to I-20 I see at least one idiot running 90-100, weaving in and out of lanes. Not once, NOT ONCE, have I seen one of these fools stopped.

Prufreed said...

HELLO TO JPS...

"...calls from citizens in reference to multiple automobiles driving careless and reckless on city streets in “convoys”."

Adverbs, in this case, should end with the letters 'ly'.

Anonymous said...

Why would your average traffic officer have any motivation to perform duties when the JPD brass doesn’t support them, the mayor doesn’t support them, and Judge Green turns everyone free that they arrest... what’s the point?


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