Dangerous 'Fast & Furious'-style road rallies terrorizing California streets

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What's happening in our neighborhood corridors, business corridors is unacceptable.

[They] basically destroy our streets, our intersections, break our lights and crosswalks.

The police clearly tell us that 64% of those participating in sideshows are not from Oakland, they're coming from outside of the city of Oakland to destroy our streets, create safety issues not only for the community, but also for the spectator.

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We're trying to stop that behavior.

We live in challenged neighborhoods to begin with, where we are investing millions and millions of dollars to improve our crosswalks, our lighting, our streets, just to allow our children and families to go to school, to do their shopping and enjoyment of the neighborhood.

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I'm also paying over time for a police sideshow unit. Not only the Oakland Police, but now I have the California Highway Patrol, the sheriff's department that are also participating.

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We catch you doing that right now, not only will we find you, impound your vehicle, but, we also have the opportunity to give you up to six months in prison. But right now, we're trying to discourage. I've sat down with some of the organizers and met with them. We try to find different opportunities where they perhaps can, at a racetrack, they can have these sideshow activities, but that didn't work out.

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We need to stop that illegal behavior and protect our families and children. We need to create an ordinance that clearly defines imposing fines and penalties against organizers and facilitators of sideshows.

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