WLBT reported drag racing is still a problem on Northside Drive:
While four months after the Jackson City Council passed a new measure aimed at ending street racing and reckless driving, many residents say they can’t tell anything has changed.
“There’s still constant racing, loud engines just always flying past us on Northside Drive. I almost got hit just the other day, actually,” said north Fondren resident Chris Wilbourn. “Had a guy swerve around me and then take off at probably speeds of 60, 70 miles an hour.”
Wilbourn’s experience — as well as other residents who declined to talk on-camera for this story — is anecdotal, however, as no data on arrests, citations, or fines from the city’s street racing ordinance has been released at this point.... Rest of article.
If only there were city employees who drove super-fast vehicles and had arrest powers.
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"If only there were city employees who drove super-fast vehicles and had arrest powers." Wonder how many of the drag racers are city employees. This is not limited to Northside Drive.
If memory serves me, JPD has a no pursuit policy unless it is Felony. Careless/Reckless driving is a misdemeanor.
Title 63 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
Chapter 3 - TRAFFIC REGULATIONS AND RULES OF THE ROAD
Article 25 - RECKLESS OR CARELESS DRIVING AND MISCELLANEOUS RULES
§ 63-3-1201 - Reckless driving
Any person who drives any vehicle in such a manner as to indicate either a willful or a wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving. Reckless driving shall be considered a greater offense than careless driving.
Every person convicted of reckless driving shall be punished upon a first conviction by a fine of not less than Five Dollars ($ 5.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($ 100.00), and on a second or subsequent conviction he may be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days or by a fine of not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($ 500.00), or by both.
Jackistan, all of it, is lost. Get your heads out of your rectum and move, or quit complainining and enjoy the suck.
If y'all had any guts you would have mass weekly organized protests at city hall, but when I have suggested this in the past the response is "there is no parking."
GMAFB
This is why the left/entitled crowd always gets what they want, but conservative law abiding taxpayers sit around and do nothing, and get nothing.
But…wait…JPD is ticketing at least 50-60 people a day going 5-10 mph over speed limit on Ridgewood. Guess low-hanging fruit is fruitful, and safe
where’s Batman when he’s needed?
some idiots drag racing over the spillway hit another car at the intersection with old canton a few weekends ago. flipped one of the racing cars. idiots
Boy Chok isn't going to do a damn thing. He's like a limp d--k, it doesn't do anybody any good.
@10:08, 1] they're ticketing on Ridgewood since the odds are better that the drivers being ticketed actually have the means to pay the ticket and, 2] the Emperor Mayor doesn't want any speeding right outside the wall that separates his mansion from the commoners.
whenever I see these clowns I am always curious which creature was the hair harvested for their hilarious weave extensions?
You know that you are a curmudgeonly old man when you get this upset at young people having a good time!
someone needs to open up a legal drag strip and road course in jackson. baton rogue has no problem raceway so why can't jackson? And don't bring up the drag strip in byram, that place is a joke.
someone needs to open up a legal drag strip and road course in jackson. baton rogue has no problem raceway so why can't jackson? And don't bring up the drag strip in byram, that place is a joke.
October 26, 2021 at 12:21 PM; your question has been brought up before and answered on previous posts regarding this same issue, but i will answer again. who's gonna pay for this drag strip. and why would these folks that are racing pay to race somewhere else when they already have free reign over the streets of jackson.
a smart person would know that it would be cheaper for them to pay to race, considering the cost of repairs to rims, tires and suspension from racing on jackson's streets. but then, we aren't taking about the smartest people in the room, either.
Ban muscle cars.
Seriously
Nobody races a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight.
The ones that aren’t being raced are just sitting in some old boomers garage waiting for the owner to die.
They are also racing 2 blocks from the JPD headquarters downtown. On State Street across from Martins and down by the strip clubs. There are bullet holes in the street signs by Dannys. Soooooo ummmm yeah.
Would speed bumps help put a stop to street racing? Probably naive, I know. Seems like the repaving of streets only leads to more street racing.
"This is an unfortunate and a senseless crime that no agency has the means of preventing and is also very difficult to predict."
Oh, wait, that just applies to triple-homicides, in a city that is on-pace to set its fourth consecutive per-capita homicide record.
9:59, Once the blue lights come on, fleeing in a reckless manner becomes "felony fleeing." As far as I know, Mayor Lumumba II's no-chase policy still applies.
"..where’s Batman when he’s needed?"
He's secure in the Madison Bat Cave. Other than in a photo-op with The Mayor, when was the last time in 30 years you've seen the Chief up there in public? At his upcoming retirement cheese-and-ham farewell, ain't nobody gone recognize him. Something be workin'.
Speaking of which...who could pick the Jackson PoPo Chief out of a lineup?
'Cause legal drag strips don't allow no weapons, drugs, cursing or genital display and you can't be breakin' no laws in Jackson or they'll take you down highway 18 for counselin'.
12:13 PM
Bet you don't even have insurance like most of jackistan. It's all fun and games until you T-bone someone and kill them. The sad part will be the relatives won't even be able to get anything from the thugs since they don't have any assets.
12:21 PM
Is Hawkins Air Field even used anymore?
12:42: Should we also ban fast food restaurants to prevent littering? Or ban the Internet to prevent idiocy?
Zzzzzz.
Please Lord, just return and end us all now. We can longer solve simple problems or have a rational thought without issue. The great reset indeed. Every gain we have made has been wiped away in shorter than 20 years.
It’s all over the place, just watch some IG videos and you’ll laugh at how harmless these Jackson clowns are compared to other states. I’m surprised it’s taken over 15 years for it to make it to Mississippi. People used drag race on McDowell Rd and Hwy80/Van Winkle before it became the Hood, I believe Capitol Street too back in the 70’s.
Attn 11:29 How can you not have the money to pay fines when you have enough to build a street racer and put racing tires on them. I guess it is the same honor system as paying your water bill in Jackson.
2:50 wades through 20 comments to tell us he's bored?
Ride 220 any time of day and there is always a couple cars
hauling butt with each other
I guess the Highway Patrol running radar was just for show for a
few weeks early this summer
“... said north Fondren resident".
North Fondren ?
Gawd that's funny !
These goofy hipster kids still think ancient West Northside Drive neighborhoods are part of "The Fondren".
That's not much different than the mythical "Mid Town District" (west of the Millsaps campus over to
the rail tracks and up to Woodrow Wilson).
The guys racing on Northside Drive are just some good ole boys, never meaning no harm. They beat all you ever saw. They’ve probably been in trouble with the law since the day they were born.
This is what happens when you take away Drive-In Movies and Midnight Basketball. If it was Fonzie and Richie, you all would be hollering Go Cat Go!
Attn 11:45 PM the alcohol in your system has blurred your ability to communicate. Please revise your thoughts early Wednesday
As long as 80 year old grandparents, auntie, or uncle can be coerced into cosigning a $1000.00 per month note for seven years, these thugs will buy high powered Chargers, Mercedes, Audis, etc. I see this quite frequently. They will drive them at least until the third payment is late !!!!
All you guys never hung out on Beasley Rd late on a Friday night huh?
Muscle cars aren't new. You're just getting old and information is easy to come by.
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