{"id":403107,"date":"2025-11-25T07:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403107\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:31:24","slug":"nypd-needs-to-quash-violent-car-meetup-street-takeovers-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403107\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD needs to quash violent car-meetup ‘street takeovers’ IMMEDIATELY"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s outrageous that Saturday night\u2019s 40-car \u201cstreet takeover\u201d in Queens devolved into arson<\/a> and assaults on residents who dared intervene, but it\u2019s also horrific if a 911 dispatcher told callers that the vehicular melee was a \u201cquality of life\u201d non-emergency, so they needed to call 311 .<\/p>\n

As all New Yorkers know, 311 is where complaints go to die.<\/p>\n

OK, the NYPD has no record of that 911 call, and says it responded rapidly (on an insane night in the precinct) to what it first registered as just a \u201cdrag racing\u201d complaint.<\/p>\n

Still, it took cops at least 23 minutes from the \u201cdrag racing\u201d call to reach the quiet Malba neighborhood, while a dozen thugs physically brutalized a local couple and others torched a private security car with a Molotov cocktail.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Street takeovers, or \u201csideshows,\u201d are a nationwide trend \u2014 fueled by social media and movies like the Fast & Furious franchise \u2014 where bozos invade wide intersections with stolen whips and perform dangerous, rubber-burning \u201cdrift\u201d maneuvers.<\/p>\n

Instagram and TikTok are filled with videos of idiots peeling out, pulling \u201cdonuts\u201d and losing control, knocking into spectators or smashing into lampposts.<\/p>\n

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Though common in car-friendly locales like Los Angeles or Detroit for years, this idiocy hasn\u2019t been unknown in New York.<\/p>\n

Neighborhoods across the city \u2014 usually less populated than leafy Malba \u2014 are all too familiar with the \u201cmeetups\u201d: Intersections scorched with dozens of tire marks bear witness to the mayhem.<\/p>\n

The NYPD has cracked down on illegal dirt-bike and unlicensed all-terrain-vehicle parades that swarm major avenues in intimidating shows of force; it now needs to get vigilant on these \u201cmeetups.\u201d<\/p>\n

City Councilwoman Vicki Paladino (R-Queens) has extracted an apology from the NYPD<\/a> and a promise the local precinct will keep police cars on alert for more Malba madness; that\u2019s a good start.<\/p>\n

But this is a serious quality-of-life offense: Self-righteous hooligans invading neighborhoods for riotous criminal chaos.<\/p>\n

If the NYPD can\u2019t control the streets, it\u2019s losing control of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s outrageous that Saturday night\u2019s 40-car \u201cstreet takeover\u201d in Queens devolved into arson and assaults on residents who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[40580,5229,5303,4691,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,13047,40740,8156,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-403107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-40580","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-car-crashes","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-quality-of-life","20":"tag-terror-on-the-streets-of-new-york","21":"tag-theft","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115609173638386706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}