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An illegal street race in Bogotá, Colombia. Street racing is a typically unsanctioned and often illegal form of auto racing that occurs on a public road.Racing in the streets is considered an ancient hazard, as horse racing occurred on streets for centuries, and street racing in automobiles is likely as old as the automobile itself.
Months of undercover police efforts stalled illegal street racing as Jacksonville police arrested 36 people and seized 13 vehicles.
Earlier this year, a group of more than 100 vehicles participating in illegal street racing took over a South Memphis intersection. One resident told a local news outlet it’s like “the wild ...
Street racing is the frequently illegal racing of motor vehicles on public roads and highways. These high-speed races, usually with untrained drivers, can result in fatal crashes that have the capacity to inflict damage on innocent people not participating in the race. In 2006, California state highway patrol issued 697 citations for "speed ...
Since the start of the pandemic, illegal street racing has increased on the streets of Tucson and stopping the practice has proven to be a challenge.
According to conflict theorists such as Marvin Wolfgang, Hubert Blalock and William Chambliss, the disproportionate representation of racial minorities in crime statistics and in the prison population is the result of race- and class-motivated disparities in arrests, prosecutions and sentencing rather than differences in actual participation in ...
Race has been a factor in the United States criminal justice system since the system's beginnings, as the nation was founded on Native American soil. [32] It continues to be a factor throughout United States history through the present, with organizations such as Black Lives Matter calling for decarceration through divestment from police and prisons and reinvestment in public education and ...
It is illegal to be a spectator at illegal races, police said. 69 arrested — half of them juveniles — as Florida police swarm illegal race, cops say Skip to main content