[Music] members of our community have repeatedly asked for police to address the highly dangerous activity of street takeovers street racing often involves hundreds of people who watch and participate these street takeovers have occurred throughout the city on major thoroughfares bridges and on neighborhood streets during these events hundreds of innocent drivers have been affected and could not get home to work or to their families use public streets for the shipments of commerce or potentially access emergency care due to road blockage street racing has taken lives generated countless complaints created fair in our community and undoubtedly cost lost revenues and wages to innocent people those participating have taken advantage of the police bureau's staffing situation understanding that these events require many officers to respond recently the portland city council created a new city ordinance that provides police more tools to address street racing the city code addresses and criminalizes the unsafe behavior associated with street racing including drifting and sliding vehicles blocking roads and intersections for displays and racing on public roads or places open to the public we have joined with our law enforcement partners to combat and stop this illegal activity those who have participated in street racing must stop it is dangerous and costly to our community the time to respect each other is now thank you