Quads on the Street in Detroit

WhiteHawk

WhiteHawk

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Just overheard this on the police scanner app on my phone tuned to Grosse Pointe Dispatch:

FYI there are about 100 quads at 7 and Hayes heading for Moross. They have already rammed a scout car.
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What the fuck is wrong with people down there? If I was the cops I would be getting a couple hundred feet of spike strips and taking out the lot. WTF?

-Geoff
 
Daily thing out there... easy to say if you were a cop you would do this that or the other, cops are just out numbered and theres not alot they can do. Laying a couple hundred feet of spike strips will cause one of them to lose control, wreck or even get killed or someone else killed. Detroit seems to be treading light with the dirt bikes and ATVs since they tased the young kid last year or the year before and he died.
 
Tase them all or spike strip them all and see what happens. Get rid of the idiots and maybe Detroit will become a better place.
 
I am not really sure how well the michigan lottery "fund" is helping the things it's supposed to be helping, but maybe partition some of that "fund" over to the state police & wayne county sheriff departments to increase manpower for patrolling the city streets could be a good investment?
 
The only answer would be to build an affordable orv park in the city somewhere and then write huge tickets for street use.
 
mikesfastss said:
The only answer would be to build an affordable orv park in the city somewhere and then write huge tickets for street use.
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I agree. But after the State Cop (rightfully) tazered the kid who then hit a parked car and died, the thugs on quads won't pull over. They just keep riding. They wear bandanas like they are about to rob a bank, so the cops can't ID them, and they don't have plates or anything traceable. They are completely emboldened to be lawless now. The city has a chopper that tracks them to wherever they park or get gas - and they straight up impound them. But you can't get 100 people.

-Geoff
 
This may be a dumb question but in cities like Chicago Detroit and others why aren’t the national guard or some asked to step in and help
 
1BADAIR said:
This may be a dumb question but in cities like Chicago Detroit and others why aren’t the national guard or some asked to step in and help
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Honestly, I don't think they are going to do anything unless it gets out of hand. By out of hand - the mob kills, maims, or robs someone.

-Geoff
 
This state does it all wrong... they loose money on car registration, so they make registration more expensive... thus driving more people not to register their car.

You need to look at working with people for a solution, you can't always strong arm it. Especially in a city like Detroit. Even if you build a free ATV part downtown, they will just ride from their house to the park. I'm not sure what the solution is though.

Maybe make some trailer in all the abandoned land that lead to a park, but require like a $50 tag. That way you can keep tabs on people if they do ride illegally. Then make street riding a huge fine and impound the atv. IDK though to say what could help at this point.
 
mikesfastss said:
The only answer would be to build an affordable orv park in the city somewhere and then write huge tickets for street use.
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Yep. That will make it alllllll good. :) Can't we just get rid of insurance, registration, licenses, ORV stickers, and every other aspect of what I pay for as a law abiding citizen???? Come on have a heart.... Running from police officers??... Issuing tickets would be so cruel and wrong. Jails would be full of people that were just having fun..... Laws are just a waste of ink. :seizure:
 
AutoRoc said:
Yep. That will make it alllllll good. :) Can't we just get rid of insurance, registration, licenses, ORV stickers, and every other aspect of what I pay for as a law abiding citizen???? Come on have a heart.... Running from police officers??... Issuing tickets would be so cruel and wrong. Jails would be full of people that were just having fun..... Laws are just a waste of ink. :seizure:
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no where in my comment did I say all that, this is not much different then street racing in most aspects of it, have you never been to or even street raced? Kinda what I thought. Not everyone is a bad person for wanting to ride in the streets on a atv.
 
mikesfastss said:
no where in my comment did I say all that, this is not much different then street racing in most aspects of it, have you never been to or even street raced? Kinda what I thought. Not everyone is a bad person for wanting to ride in the streets on a atv.
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I'm with you 100%, there was a couple of 1/8th miles tracks in Houston right in the city limits. They were always packed for test and tunes fri/sat. A cheap easy alternative keeps it off the street.

That being said there is still street racing, just less i'm assuming.

Think about it from their prospective. You have little to loose. All you've ever known was the cops being the bad guys. If you stop, they take your toy, if you run you'll probably get away. Why would you stop? Even if they get you on evading, what will they do toss you in the slammer for a bit? So what, still cheaper then buying a truck, trailer, insurance and going up North to a trail. Plus all you're friends are running on the street.

Again I don't know the solution, but I don't really see a win win at this point. This is much less of a concern to me than say all the murders, thefts and violent crimes going on...
 
The only solution is let the thugs (continue to) rule Detroit unless someone gets killed or maimed. Until then, Detroit Police don't have the moral high ground to confront them. If something bad happens though, all bets are off, and shit is going to get UGLY.

-Geoff
 
mikesfastss said:
no where in my comment did I say all that, this is not much different then street racing in most aspects of it, have you never been to or even street raced? Kinda what I thought. Not everyone is a bad person for wanting to ride in the streets on a atv.
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I was just being a smart ass. You said the only answer is to make people pay to rock their minibike at an ORV park. Nobody wants to pay for a damn thing, this is why a cheap, unlicensed, uninsured toy is the best neighborhood steed. I'm the loser because I plate 7 vehicles a year AND insure them. Yes I've been to street races, in my street car, parked off of a road, in a lot, not running from cops. Many times chatting with the cops. Call me crazy. Remember those days when you would have a cop run your license for shits a giggles? Oh the days of being a good little tax payer.
 
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