AJ

Exactly I bet they're looking for "NAWS" aswell

Vegassc400

The cops are wrong and noone can dispute that but street racers are wrong too. Street racers kill people all the time and create victims. They aren't victims.

r4z0r3ck

im currently attending college here in cali and our tuition is increasing heavily annually. i mean come on now... we could put that money towards education instead of a crackdown on car mods. our gov promised education reform but i have yet to see anything. cali politics is getting ridiculous here.

thisguy_06

even though i'm not in Cali, i'm still pretty pissed off about this. Even though i can see their side of the story and their reasoning, this is still complete BS.

AsianGirl007

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Oh my! Driving while asian! Hahahahahahahhahaha...I have a cop friend and he first introduced that phrase to me, but we kind of laughed at the stereotype of a bad driver. I can't believe it actually has a meaning. The state should use that money for something more important, like solving murders. I call foul.

Neo

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Man, does this mean they can scope out local car meets and ticket everyone? No need to catch people one by one. Wait for an "official" gathering and pounce. That would suck.

nthach

shoot, i was at the 2004 NorCal vs. SoCal VW meet, and the Santa Barbara police along with the CHP went into the meet, and after it was done, pulled over people left and right.

RA40

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The political climate in Cali sucks. It goes way back to the poor management and interest of the voters who are naive to believe what they say. Some examples: the Lottery, gas tax...all had little clauses that channeled $$ away from the intended purpose.

That trickles down to making little used old statutes work when these poorly enacted laws or whatever fail. Hence these lame crackdowns to help generate public satisfaction and revenues. None will dispute the racing problems yet the way they target these segments is.

As for the crackdown on car stufff...the VW drive to the Solvang area...I heard several stories about equipment citations and how they pulled them over. Amazing how they can get an escort when it is a Bull or Stallion run. My buddy realyed how a Porsche meet got nailed too.

TheRupp

Hmm... Pimp My Ride has to move to Las Vegas or somewhere elsewhere now

That sucks, but you guys get modded cars cracked down on, we get our highways cracked down on... I hate driving laws in IL. It's almost as bad as CA, but we don't have as strict emissions laws as CA does.

toy4two

I used to get pulled over 2-3 times a year for doing nothing in my MR2, because I had an aftermarket exhaust (50 state legal Greddy).

Now that I have my RX300 I've never been stopped or hassled for anything, I just blend right in....


...cops don't target people with money.

Celicamaro

Cops rob people everyday, smokers kill others everyday, people talking on cellphones or inattentive driving kill and causes millions in damages everyday, a few stupid street racers kill themselves and a few others every 3-5 years. Main difference is there's a govt. attempt to go after street racers or those who just wants to make their vehicle look a bit cooler or different, but there is no effort to investigate cops who feel they are above the law and no effort to improve the publics driving abilities. After thousands of uneccesary death from second hand smoking and billions of loss in medicare, govt. is finally doing something. But they have not ban smoking all together or at least give people citiation for holding a cigarette. They would however do crack downs on people with any mods on their vehicles.

Cops have been watching SEMAs figures too closely and figure they can get a large piece of the ever increasing money enthusiasts spent on aftermarket equipment each year. If California really wants to get it's finances together, all they have to do it put toll booths at the nevada and california border. Every weekend thousands and thosuands of californians head to vegas and Reno to drop millions at the casino. I'm 100% sure in only one year, california will be out of the redzone and Arnold will be a hero. That useless agricultural checkpoint just outside of Barstow is ridiculous and a waste of money. The amount of gas and brake wear it cost the public could amount in the billions by now.

rominl

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this is so freaking ridiculous man..... what's up in their little brains these days.... if they stop being so discriminating for one minute, they would figure that they have a lot more time for other stuff....

and yup, it's a big waste of money for them to make even more money so they can all get better pay.... what a corrupted system.

this is soooo disappointing....

Bean

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Another reason why I think California sucks

Celicamaro

Scary part is that most other state almost always follow californias lead no matter how stupid or corrupted. The only exception I know of is my state where Jesse Ventura(when he was our governor) threw out the stupid emission tests and saved the state a bunch of money cuz all the stations were run by state employees and the testings are done free of charge. First thing I did when I heard that news was gut out my cat on the mr2 and gain some much needed mid and topend power. Lost some lowend torque, but who cares. The state obviously doesn't care about the ozone layer or maybe they know something we don't?

Lil4X

In what was termed “The K-Mart Raid”, 270 teens were arrested nearly three years ago (8/18/02) in the early hours of an otherwise quiet Sunday morning. The police raid on the large parking lot shared by a Super K-Mart and several fast-food restaurants near one of Houston’s largest club scenes was intended to capture a large number of “street racers” who had been congregating in the area for months.

The problem with the large police action was that it was conducted while some of the restaurants and the K-Mart were still open, netting a number of shoppers and families stopping for a late-night meal. All were cuffed and stuffed. The result was chaos. Perhaps the most wrong-headed police action in Houston’s history, the raid conducted with all of the zeal of a major drug raid ended with the suspension of a dozen police supervisors and the firing of more than one senior chief. Had the mayor not already been term-limited, the half-bright political puppet (and former Houston and NYC police chief) sitting at the head of City Council would have lost his job too.

All of those who were arrested spent the night in jail, being released to their families the next day. Many, if not most brought suit against the city and the cases settled out of court with undisclosed compensation – in an attempt to minimize the political fallout from the fiasco. Like cockroaches fleeing the light, police officials scrambled to cover themselves and point fingers at others both up and down the chain of command. It was not the HPD’s finest hour.

Perhaps SoCal officials can take a lesson from this. Heavy-handed tactics by law enforcement have far-reaching consequences. Before conducting any large-scale effort to curb modified cars, they should consider Houston’s example. We know how to do it wrong.