SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KRON) – Within the North Bay, there’s a crackdown on sideshows. On Tuesday evening, the Santa Rosa Metropolis Council permitted a brand new ordinance that might give legislation enforcement new instruments to cope with the escalation of reckless unlawful driving exhibitions within the metropolis.
Santa Rosa Police Division Police Chief John Cregan informed KRON4 on Tuesday, “Now we have seen individuals get damage, leaning out of vehicles, neighbors get threatened. This can enable us to cease these in our metropolis.”
Chief Cregan spoke about how the brand new sideshow ordinance targets the drivers and people selling the unlawful occasions. He mentioned, “It’ll enable us to go after the drivers, impound their vehicles, and face a jail sentence and $1,000 positive. It additionally permits us to go after these posting on social media the occasions.”
Sideshows contain dozens, and sometimes lots of, of individuals displaying as much as watch vehicles drifting and doing burnouts and donuts. Again in June, SRPD responded to greater than 400 sideshow-related calls over one weekend.
In just a few of these incidents, two automobiles caught on hearth whereas participating within the sideshows
The chief mentioned, “it’s a matter of public security. Now we have impounded 100 vehicles within the final 18 months.”
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The Chief says the ordinance is just like ones already being enforced in different Bay Space cities, like San Jose and Vallejo.
