Street Racing - Talking Beat (Clip)

North Precinct is working to combat street racing. Full Episode: https://go.usa.gov/xV4Np Commander Steinbronn: What we're seeing a lot more of in the last couple of years is the so-called sideshows. People are coming from outside in, so it's not just Portlanders that are doing this. We have people come down from the state of Washington, as far away as Tacoma, enthusiasts that come up from the bay area, specifically Oakland and San Francisco and the surrounding areas. These folks like to come up, they'll take over a freeway or a bridge overpass and they'll do their sideshow, which includes drifting, if you've ever seen Fast and the Furious, I think these folks are trying to emulate that and they like to put it on YouTube and post it and get a lot of people interested in what they're doing. The one thing that I will say about that, and it's not kids, so a lot of people say, "Oh it's just the teenagers out having fun." It's not, it's older adults. They spend a lot of time building their cars and they want to go out and show them off. But obviously the city streets and freeways and overpasses are not the location to do it. It's not safe. And last year we did have a speed racing related fatality, along Marine Drive and we'd like to avoid that in the future. We'll have a mission going where we'll have a team of officers that go out and once they learn that they're gathering in one spot, they'll go to that area. And then when you have 20 plus cars and they all take off in different directions, that can be hard to stop and identify who's doing this. But we do use photo radar, especially in key spots where we know that they're gonna open it up and increase their speed. We also use our air support unit that can help us identify cars that are out driving in a reckless manner and then we can follow them and stop them later on.