Thornton, Colorado (KDVR) – Thornton Police releases new clips of the body’s camera that shows officers who stop the contestants in the streets.
It is one of the few cases in which a driver has already withdrawn, but the police say this is not how these meetings usually go. Most drivers flee, creating a dangerous position in the city’s streets.
“It is a good work for the police and the fact that we have really increased our numbers in this type of enforcement specifically,” said SGT Traffic. Bradley with Thornton Police Department. “Also, we have increased our numbers a lot in the city as much as police officers in general.”
He says during the summer months, the officers see an increase in a serious crime.
“It is chaos. Many clubs withdraw permits and use gardens and have good partnerships with them,” said Bradley. They are very respectful, but the rest of the clubs may not contain bad intentions, but they have this faction inside their clubs or a kind of signs. That causes good chaos with us. “
Bradley says that scenes of such play are often, but in most cases, these contestants do not slow down. Many drivers pay their luck and run.
Bradley said: “What this particular officer saw, determined that he is a competition for speed or street race and was able to get one of the vehicles to stop him.” “It happened that another officer saw the second car pulled into a fuel station on the road. He asked,” Is this the car I saw? “The other officer said,” Yes, he stopped him for me. “Therefore, he was able to cite each of these two drivers.”
So far this year, the officers have received 21 invitations to serve in relation to the illegal street race and see them more on the 25th Highway.
“It seems great, but we have gone through a great delegation two years ago to last year,” said Bradley. We had a large type of concentration of concentration in traffic resources. We have compounds capable of hunting these men mainly, but we have restricted chase policies. We will not follow anything that says traffic, reckless leadership and neglect, because we must weigh the safety of the audience. It should be something more serious for us to already follow these people. So if they stop us, of course, we will take enforcement measures but often they will not. “
The officers say that the goal is not only to catch up with the contestants, but rather to prevent these positions in the first place.
This means more vision, more pressure and shows that the streets of Thornton are not a place for the race.
“We have put a lot of resources in this. Ton of time, a lot of equipment and technology in this but we cannot do this by ourselves,” said Bradley. “As in everything, we are trying to partnership with society, and if you see that, contact us and help us alert us to these things so that we can be above them and we can find the appropriate areas to focus on and put the appropriate resources in the right place.”
The street race may feel the feeling at the present time, but you may arrest you 12 points for your license. This is enough to put your driving privileges on the line.
If you know where the street race occurs, the police ask you to speak, relate to it or report it Reportstreetracting.com
“What we did, because we do not have the size to create our business squad, are we partners with all other agencies in Adam “So what we do if there is a problem with the province of Adams, the city of trade, or in Thornton. All officers and agencies go and help implement, then we sit mainly for the following complaint and we all work together.”