Round of applause to Riverside PD! youtube vid

[HyperTek]

YouTube - Riverside Police Target Street Racing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4AGzfnw00)

this might be old for some of you.. but man this is stupid.. They set up a check point, and the news media likes to title the whole thing as targeting street racers..

They shouldnt be able to stereotype modded cars that are no where near a street race environment.. thats like me getting suspected of being a rapist because i got a penis.

[Felipe]

getting pwned for an inake...

[s13boy89]

lol
wow glad i dont visit my family anymore i would have gotten raped

[victo.]

well looks like riverside is off the map for places to visit haha

[aoiken3]

if you play it from 1:11, it says "in most cases, drivers were stopped at random" and then they show a stopped evo. shows their idea of what the word random means

[HyperTek]

saw someone post these pics on myspace , i suppose they where leaving the eibach meet
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/28/l_2e269cd5f10981c59d95a687d3c00bc8.jpg
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/69/l_e3d91ece17a936902163f55cb6f474b1.jpg
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/49/l_fa827399380e18325da58b9779007295.jpg
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/38/l_1623658e97ccfdf2fd6705374e67a64a.jpg
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/97/l_f0a7f9406d81f27833feb1be597862f5.jpg

these are teh type of cars they need to pull over, people drivign with no hoods etc

[CrimsonRockett]

Said this multiple times already, but all of this shit is just plain irritating.

I LOVE working on my car.

I've never been one to add something to my car for the sake of making it faster.

Hell, I love my slow ass single slammer.

They can pull me over all they want.

They're not going to get anything out of me other than a fix it ticket for either being too low or an exhaust ticket.

Both easy fixes.

[S14DB]

LOL, what scammers. They are using a street racing grant to run a DUI checkpoint("Safety checkpoint").

[94cc0rd]

Andddd this is why I still have a stock KA (minus exhaust).

[HyperTek]

i just dont think i could enjoy owning a modded/custom car if it stayed in the garage all the time, thats why i like to drive my car.. otherwise id just build some gran turismo cars lmao.

[s14gmo]

thats like me getting suspected of being a rapist because i got a penis.
LOL this is the consequence of living in cali CVPD is doing the same thing

[blackrms13]

the EVO had no front plate, they didnt say any about it

but Riverside does have a shitload of ricers....

[bardabe]

I passed through one of those abt a year ago. cop asked me if i was modded, I said Yes, He asked to pop my hood I asked for a warrent, fuckers had me there for a little over an hour then popped my hood, i was back on the road in about 10 minutes after i passed the DB test lol. Twin Turbo Z32 FTW

[DDDsquad_s13panda]

JDM-01 plates...??? comeon, how much of a fanboy is that guy. getting everything JDM to be JDM, his trying to hard... and thats why real TUNERs are gettin screwed...:faint:


i hope this dont get outta hand then they'll start checkpoints every thursday right outside ADAMS TRACK...:dead:

[Vatche]

bunch of fucking idiots. they spend money on stupid shit like this? then raise our taxes? wtf... 4 people died in riverside that COULD have been Associated with street racing? prolly was some idiots in stock vehicles being jackasses. maybe we should be more money into the school system to teach kids not to be fucking idiots.

WHY would you want your car to go faster? its only for street racing? BULLSHIT. how come you can buy cars stock at 400hp now cheap. meanwhile those civics that are getting all this shit have like a maximum of 200hp...

what these cops, and politicians, etc get out of this i have no idea. but whatever it is they get out of this they need to get over it and move on. or shove it up their ass.

one of the most irritating things for me to see or read about. pisses me off

[FaLKoN240]

If they asked me why I had an intake on my Civic I'd say,

"It sounds better and makes my car faster, this shit is slow, who am I gonna race?"

The funny thing is when people are dying from street racing there are like way more people dying from other crimes and shit they could be handling.

Popping people for street racing without proof is just a cheap way to make revenue.

[GSXRJJordan]

^^^ I woulda ripped that cop apart if he tried to get me with that lame logic - "why would you want to add power, if not to street race?" LOLZ @ him.

But yeah, we had one of these in Baldwin Park last week, just North of the 10fwy, as you come over the bridge on Baldwin Park Blvd - disguised as a "DUI Checkpoint", all they were doing was checking driver's licenses, cause I guess we have a bunch of illegals over here. I drove right through with my Tacoma that has expired tags lol, gave the cop the "White-boy wave" as I went and he just nodded me though. It was funny to see people try to flip a bitch when they saw it, only to see a cop race out from a parking spot and pull 'em over. Suckas.

It is definitely bullshit that they spend the dollars on that and play it off as "public safety", trying to pull street racers off the street - testing for DUI's on the other hand, I am all for.

[Vatche]

"public safety" is an excuse for taking away rights.

my opinion in this matter is "fuck public safety", i only care about my rights.

you got a problem with that? go join them. be another sheep.

[S14DB]

^^^ I woulda ripped that cop apart if he tried to get me with that lame logic - "why would you want to add power, if not to street race?" LOLZ @ him.

But yeah, we had one of these in Baldwin Park last week, just North of the 10fwy, as you come over the bridge on Baldwin Park Blvd - disguised as a "DUI Checkpoint", all they were doing was checking driver's licenses, cause I guess we have a bunch of illegals over here. I drove right through with my Tacoma that has expired tags lol, gave the cop the "White-boy wave" as I went and he just nodded me though. It was funny to see people try to flip a bitch when they saw it, only to see a cop race out from a parking spot and pull 'em over. Suckas.

It is definitely bullshit that they spend the dollars on that and play it off as "public safety", trying to pull street racers off the street - testing for DUI's on the other hand, I am all for.
It's totally a DUI/safety checkpoint.

They got funding from the state to stop "street racing" so they invite some web journalist over that is just happy to have a story. Then they feed him the street racing BS and he laps it up.

Notice in the video all the people ticked and/or arrested is for license, registration and DUI.

Hey Officer, why do you have that gun? To shoot and kill people? Do you know people that shoot and kill people?

[Brian]

California could use the extra money.

:)

[turboeic]

But yeah, we had one of these in Baldwin Park last week, just North of the 10fwy, as you come over the bridge on Baldwin Park Blvd - disguised as a "DUI Checkpoint", all they were doing was checking driver's licenses, cause I guess we have a bunch of illegals over here. I drove right through with my Tacoma that has expired tags lol, gave the cop the "White-boy wave" as I went and he just nodded me though. It was funny to see people try to flip a bitch when they saw it, only to see a cop race out from a parking spot and pull 'em over. Suckas.

Yea they always have them on Ramona. They have a sign that says "DUI Checkpoint". So I get to one of the cops and just asks me for my license, checks it and gives it back. He said I could go. Then I kinda snapped and told him when was he gonna check if I was drunk?
He said he could tell, but I didn't even say a damn word.

[SLVRBLLT40]

Ah, the joy of owning pre-smog. I don't have to worry about fix it tickets for "illegal" mods. Just as long as it's not too loud, I'm pretty much ok :D

[TheRealSy90]

the first time i got pulled over after swapping my sr the cop said basically the same thing, why would i take out the stock motor? why do i have a boost gauge for? why is the interior gutted? Because it's my car and i'll do whatever the hell i want with it! is basically what i said :) it's weird that he didn't ask about exhaust and stuff considering i'm just running the j pipe off the turbo lol

so with all this smog checking and no modding aloud and whatnot, are all the cars going to the adams meet and such all running stock ka's or what?

[coreansurfer]

what a bunch of crap.

just another thing on the list of reasons why everyone loves Rside soooo fucking much.

i hate this city

[HyperTek]

theres just a bunch of poor tasteless ricers out here in riverside that ruin it for all of us.

[singlecamslam]

Serve and protect my ass. Theres crack heads and drug addicts shooting innocent people everyday and little ricer are more dangerous than that. Cops are just too scared to go after the real criminals. I got a damn ticket on a SCOOTER. That really pissed me off. Oh well, quota time.

[heavenskrow]

THIS IS A BUNCH OFFUCKIN BALONY
i mod my car but not fuckin street race...my stock ka isnt even fast u stupid cops.
GOD this is fuckin RETARDED...

dude a fuckin chick cop gave me a ticket and said my fuckin CARB LEGAL INJEN INTAKE was ILLEGAL...im like no its legal, its carb legal...and she says anything not originally nissan is illegal...and im like in my head .........wow what a dumbnut
can anyone confrim?

My reinhard exhaust with resonator passed the DB Test =] cops cant do shit

[Brian]

I broke the law and got a ticket!!!!


Shit, the cops are so mean.

[punn303]

bunch of fucking idiots. they spend money on stupid shit like this? then raise our taxes? wtf... 4 people died in riverside that COULD have been Associated with street racing? prolly was some idiots in stock vehicles being jackasses. maybe we should be more money into the school system to teach kids not to be fucking idiots.

WHY would you want your car to go faster? its only for street racing? BULLSHIT. how come you can buy cars stock at 400hp now cheap. meanwhile those civics that are getting all this shit have like a maximum of 200hp...

what these cops, and politicians, etc get out of this i have no idea. but whatever it is they get out of this they need to get over it and move on. or shove it up their ass.

one of the most irritating things for me to see or read about. pisses me off


Well said.

[Brian]

It's kind of like this.


Let's say you buy all the clothes and accessories to look like a bank robber.
You talk about it. You act like it, etc... You have all the equipment to actually rob a bank.


Then one day the cops think, jeez this guy might be a bank robber.


Are they now wrong?


Police don't bring problems to you.
You bring problems to yourself.

[singlecamslam]

So having an exhaust is the same as being a bank robber? Even though the exhaust is legal and under 90 decibels.

[Brian]

No it isn't the same.
That isn't the point.


the point IS, doing something illegal (bank robbery, murder, graffiti, doing illegal mods to your car) all share something similar. they are ILLEGAL.

There should be NO bitching if you get in trouble for them.


Of course it sucks sometimes.

At that exact time somebody gets an exhaust ticket, somebody else somewhere probably got murdered, but at the end of the day, one "crime" was "solved" and one wasn't.


I got a speeding ticket the other day. I was driving down a street with NO houses and hardly any other cars at all. Apparently they decided to make the speed limit 35 on this street and I really don't know why.
I got a ticket.
Yes I was mad, but how can I bitch? I broke the law.


I just don't get why so many people bitch and bitch about the police.
I guarantee it is one of THE most difficult jobs to do yet gets the least respect from (what seems) like the vast majority.

[singlecamslam]

I understand what you're saying and i'm sure being a cop sucks and i respect cops because they save lives. But some laws are stupid. And why cant we complain? If i didnt break the law with my exhaust that was after market but Super quiet and i still got a ticket. I even took it to court and i still had to pay because apparently anything other than stock is illegal now no matter what. There should be a limit to this kind of crap because this doesnt help cops with their immage even though they can one day save your life. Just in my case i had nothing but trouble from the police. When i got robbed at gunpoint the cops did absolutely nothing. They showed up 40 minutes after, asked my name and left.

[hOngsterr]

But yeah, we had one of these in Baldwin Park last week, just North of the 10fwy, as you come over the bridge on Baldwin Park Blvd - disguised as a "DUI Checkpoint", all they were doing was checking driver's licenses, cause I guess we have a bunch of illegals over here. I drove right through with my Tacoma that has expired tags lol, gave the cop the "White-boy wave" as I went and he just nodded me though. It was funny to see people try to flip a bitch when they saw it, only to see a cop race out from a parking spot and pull 'em over. Suckas.



lol they had like 2 of those in santa ana and garden grove.
saw the cones and flashing lights and busted a bitch
but cops never went after me lol

[Brian]

I agree on a lot of the laws.

front plate.... lights....exhaust, etc.
I wish they were NOT laws, but they are.

People have tried to get them revoked for YEARS,

but, i think it's a simple EASY MONEY ticket.

[Zilviasr20]

this is so stupid its not like a damn intake gives u a shit of horse power.. i respect cops but sometimes there so ignorant

[upsdude]

I think the best and simplest way to put it is that it's the few dumbasses acting a fool ruining it for the rest of us. And yeah, it pisses me off that these street racing idiots have caused law enforcement put a target on anyone who's young and driving an import; but try to imagine the perspective of someone who's lost a loved one who was killed because he/she was racing, or was in an accident that involved racing-luckilly, knock on wood a thousand times, I haven't had to deal with that kind of situation...but if my wife were to be hurt/killed because someone was racing down bear valley and lost control and hit her...I'd probably want every type of mod banned from existence. I'm speaking hypothetically, and just trying to give another perspective.

California has such a rich and strong love affair with cars...if not we'd have a better subway/ mass transit system. but we love our cars. Alot of us spend 1-2 hours a day in one just getting to work. We treat them as extensions of our personalities. I personally would love to mod my car-Be it for more power, or because i can't afford a ferrari so i'll make what i do have look and nice as possible. I paid for it, i'm an adult and if i'm stupid enough to race on the streets then i'll have to deal with the repercussions. And for this reason i HATE how we import drivers are targeted and profiled as street racers. A person may see a nicely modded import driving down the road what does he/she think? Must be a racer. Same person sees a restored hemi 'cuda and that same persont might start gushing about a historical automotive icon blah blah blah....EXCUSE me..but alot of those old cars were made TO GO FAST. it's a double standard. Never mind the rumbling nova with a giant air scoop feeding the supercharger...what's really dangerous is a 1.6L with a cold air intake...jeez. but anyways, sport compacts/imports/whatever you wanna call em are the hot rods of this generation, and as long as there's plenty of people driving as if they're Vin freakin' Diesel living "one quarter mile at a time", the cops are gonna focus on the import scene. *sorry for the rant* :rant2:

[mrmephistopheles]

Much as I appreciate the efforts of the peace officers at work here, especially in their efforts in stopping DUIs, every person who thinks that they might EVER have a chance of encountering a police officer (in any capacity) should watch these two videos.

They're long, but they're important.

YouTube - Dont Talk to Police (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc)

6wXkI4t7nuc

YouTube - BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA)

yqMjMPlXzdA

[DC2many]

sounds very unlikely but those of us w/ zero records should have it easier...

sounds very impossible yes, but it's completely fucked to be lumped into the category of people who fuck it up for those who love their cars and hate looking stock =x

[DataXUnknown]

So having an exhaust is the same as being a bank robber? Even though the exhaust is legal and under 90 decibels.

Wrong, apparently anything that looks "modified" is considered illegal for the exhaust. Got pulled over by a lady cop in a charger and I mentioned that to her when she told me I had a modified exhaust that is not legal. I told her it's under the 90 decibel limit, and she said as long as it's modified it is not legal. I have the apexi n1 (running SR) so it's super quiet.

Oh and I feel like I saw this video like a year ago. I'm going to call :repost: on the OP.

[FrankDukes]

I broke the law and got a ticket!!!!


Shit, the cops are so mean.


True. You have to pay to play the game.

***If I had the power*** I would make STREET RACING LEGAL!

1. CLOSED DOWN A FEW SECTIONS OF FREEWAYS AFTER FROM 2:00AM TO 5 AM IN THE MORNING
2. HAVE POLICE AND SPONSORS CHARGE $20 PER CAR. $15 DOLLARS FOR SPECTATORS.
3. LET THESE RICERS/RACERS RUN UP AND DOWN THE 110 FREEWAY.
4. WITH THE MONEY, PAY CAL-TRANS TO CLEAN UP THE FREEWAYS AFTERWARDS. ORRRRRR Just let Prisoners do the clean up for free, since they don't do shit anyway and wasting tax payers money.

5. ALL OVER THE U.S.A. STREET RACING WILL GENERATE MONEY AND BOOST THE ECONOMY. MORE JOBS! LESS LIVES LOST.

BAM!

Jobs created:
*Venders
*Sellers
*Sponsors

Benefits:
*Money = Economy UP
*No "pedestrian" will die.
*Only street racers will die, (they will sign a waiver before they race).

There are so many good ideas, I don't know what the heck these law makers and presidents and political parties can't find a damn way to improve our lives.

[DataXUnknown]

^ Gotta keep in mind that "legal" street racing, a lot of people have "illegal" engine modifications. Some even stolen parts/motors. Therefore police there would be a horrible idea. Unless you'd go full track status and basically make it like you are at willow springs, horsetheif freeway lol. It would be something that caltrans would have to host themselves and inform the PD about it.

[Colin1337]

Cops really just stereotype. Back when I had my integra with JUST a muffler (yes I had. my ricer days) chp pulled me over. Prior to my 240 I had an srt4 with fmic, cf hood and tbe and only got pulled over once for expired tags. Cop didn't ask to pop the hood or anything.

[Dignity]

They shouldnt be able to stereotype modded cars that are no where near a street race environment.. thats like me getting suspected of being a rapist because i got a penis.
Well said lol.

[VROOOM]

Cops really just stereotype. Back when I had my integra with JUST a muffler (yes I had. my ricer days) chp pulled me over. Prior to my 240 I had an srt4 with fmic, cf hood and tbe and only got pulled over once for expired tags. Cop didn't ask to pop the hood or anything.

SRT4's are loud stock, and they come with a FMIC stock. maybe thats the reason.

[murda-c]

It's kind of like this.


Let's say you buy all the clothes and accessories to look like a bank robber.
You talk about it. You act like it, etc... You have all the equipment to actually rob a bank.


Then one day the cops think, jeez this guy might be a bank robber.


Are they now wrong?


Police don't bring problems to you.
You bring problems to yourself.

Only idiots rob banks dressed as a bank robber.

I street race my odyssey.

[VROOOM]

Only idiots rob banks dressed as a bank robber.

I street race my odyssey.

is this you?
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k79/nismothecat/odysssey.jpg

[ricerocket99]

I do believe cops risk there lives everyday to keep us safe, but there are a few out there that just wanna be jerks, I mean... I understand getting tickets for modifed this in that if your actually doing illegal things; racing, drifting, etc... but why the hell do people get busted for just fallowing the rules. Everytime i've been just minding my own business, using my signals, going the speed limit i get pulled over.

One time i saw a cop at a 4 way stop, i stoped completly then went on my way, he leaves his post to follow me and pull me over, he asked for the usual and i asked what i did, he was scooping my car to see what he could find, since i have a custom 3 inch exhaust with a stock tip with an RB i doesn't look modified, he cant find anything so he says to me "your front license plate is about to fall off, have a good day.

R U serious, he was just profiling me.

[Brian]

We all willingly put ourselves in that situation.

Don't want to be profiled?
Don't drive a modified car.

[FaLKoN240]

We all willingly put ourselves in that situation.

Don't want to be profiled?
Don't drive a modified car.

That's like telling a black person if they don't want to be profiled don't be black, of course the logical fallacy in my statement is, you can't STOP being black, you can STOP driving modified cars.

But still, it doesn't make it ok for police to assume that we're doing bad stuff because we're in modified cars.

Just like its not ok for police to assume that if you're black you're going to be holding/on drugs, or about to knock over a liquor store.

[Brian]

I agree.

It isn't 'OKAY" for them to profile.

But..... does it happen? Yes.
Will it stop? Doubtful.



Please understand what my argument is.

I'm not saying that what they do is OK.
I'm stating the fact of what is happening and what is going to happen.


That's all.

[Tantwoforty]

blame it on the hondas.

[I LUV MY S13]

they were handcuffed for a "street racing" car??