You’ve probably seen images of Los Angeles’ viaduct system in movies like Terminator 2Shows like TV 24. It is home to scenes of car racing, high-speed chases, and dystopian landscapes. This location has been popular for street racing since decades.
The 6ThThe $588 million massive renovation of the street viaduct bridge closed down the Street Viaduct Bridge in 2015. It connects Boyle Heights with downtown L.A., and has seen its condition decline over time. This bridge opened to traffic in July with great fanfare.
It was, unfortunately, too good to be real. The bridge has returned to being a popular drag racing location and a site of what’s known as a “street takeover.” This is a situation where mobs of spectators and street racing crews block off streets they deem ideal for racing and take them over for their own use. It is extremely illegal and dangerous, as it should be.
Newly opened 6th Street bridge, half-billion dollar in value, is the scene of street takeover that ends with several cars being involved in a crash.
Our community is being literally destroyed by this lawlessness. pic.twitter.com/6Ydg902Kza
— Kevin Dalton (@KevinForBOS) July 19, 2022
The 6ThStreet bridges are a main thoroughfare for pedestrians, traffic and is often cited as a key route. However, street takeovers have plagued the area since it reopened.
Los Angeles’s City Council has taken a tough stance against law-abiding residents who are using the viaduct in the way it was designed. In an effort to discourage street takeovers at peak racing times (especially on weekends), the city will close the bridge periodically.
These are the ways authoritarian progressives handle everything. The solution is to limit law-abiding citizens to stop criminal violations. The criminals get to continue violating the law, because that’s what criminals do.
Democrat officials in the area and the federal government respond to a mad person who violates the law by killing innocent schoolchildren. While murder is an offense, we should not respond to it by applying the law and making more efforts to stop insane people from committing mass-murder. The only way is to penalize the innocent.
While rampant smash and grab crime is raging in Los Angeles, the city’s solution is to erase felonies for theft offenses up to the value of $950. Meanwhile, stores like CVS and Walgreen’s have had to practically turn their locations into escape rooms, putting even basic items like deodorant and tampons behind locked shields, and reorganizing layouts to make it more difficult to walk straight out of the building.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s response to smash and grab mobs in a popular shopping district was to restrict traffic in and out of the area. A public campaign was launched by London Breed urging citizens not to wear expensive jewelry and clothing while shopping for holiday gifts.
During the height of the pandemic, California’s homeless were living on beaches, unmasked, unvaxxed, and lying in a toxic sludge of human waste and drug paraphernalia. Police passed right by the rampant crime in the tent cities to arrest lone surfers in the ocean for breaking “quarantine.”
Only the power is what matters to left-leaning dictators. Criminals don’t respect authority. So what do you do when you crave authority but can’t use it to control agents of chaos? It is used to manage the law-abiding and peaceful. It is used to manage people who are already following the rules of the society.
We are not only victims of criminals unchecked, but also victims of weak and inept governments. Punish criminals is the only logical and mature solution. Many examples are available. Take a look at Rudy Giuliani’s transformation of New York City. He was tough on crime, making criminals the focus of law enforcement and not citizens who obey laws. It went from one of America’s most dangerous cities to being one of America’s safest. Of course, that’s all being undone by this recent spate of progressive, Black Live Matters, Defund the Police political set. But it worked once…it could work again.
When Donald Trump announced his “remain in Mexico” policy at the border, it worked to decrease illegal border crossings. For criminals, ease is preferable. It doesn’t take that much to deter 90% of the criminal class out there in America. Except for those involved in organised crime and those who seek pleasure in deliberate murder, the majority of criminals in America are of the petty type, including drug addicts, who thieve or conspire to fund their habits. They don’t want trouble, they just want it to be quick and easy.
That’s why locking your front door is a very good security measure, even though most of us have front doors that could be easily broken down were a person determined enough. It’s not about making a door that cannot be broken down, it’s about creating enough of an inconvenience for a criminal to make them think twice.
The Democrats who are in control of the largest cities don’t intend to make any criminal think twice. It is open season on innocent citizens, and Democrat-led governments have decided as long as it looks like they’re “doing something” they can “do something” to the good taxpayers of their cities and call it a plan.
The best and most logical action would be to increase police presence, penalize criminals fully, reduce arrests, and promote convictions even for minor crimes. Hotbeds like 6 should be monitored by law enforcement agencies and local departments.ThIt is impossible for the wannabes to take over by street bridge You are fast and furious crowd. Ticket parking violators, cite traffic violators. Illegal vehicle enhancements can be confiscated. Ensure the streets aren’t used for open-air drug markets and homeless encampments. It’s not easy to become a criminal.
Instead, leaders appear to enjoy the challenge of being a taxpaying citizen.
Punishing lawful people is a Democrat policy and they are proud of it.
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