The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is taking an aggressive approach to tackling and curbing street takeovers across Charlotte. By the end of the year, thanks to a new law making them illegal, the agency will have even more tools to go after folks who participate and organize street takeovers.
Reckless driving is the main charge people participating in street takeovers faced -- with that comes court fees, points on your license, and in some cases arrests and cars taken away.
But with the new law, the agency hopes to help discourage drivers from participating in this dangerous behavior even more.
“If it is just people gathering, showing off their cars we have no problem with it and we never have,” said Lieutenant Christopher Rorie, with the CMPD Transportation Division. “The problem we have is when that small percentage of individuals start gathering and doing stuff they should not be doing in the streets.”
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