It’s 3 p.m., and I can hear the squealing tires a block away on Lombard Street as the hot rod with illegally loud pipes turns the corner and roars down my street. Another rod chases behind, and both turn at the first residential street, peeling out again. At the next street they turn, having shattered the silence of our neighborhood, then rip off down Lombard from whence they came. This is a regular daily occurrence of living in what was previously a quiet residential neighborhood. With complete impunity, the hot rods, motorcycles and trucks scream through our residential streets.
I have called 911 many times, always getting a tired operator powerless to dispatch the few police to do anything half an hour or more later. Street racing on Central, Columbia and Fessenden streets is a nightly occurrence. Every mainstream intersection shows black tire donuts. We should change the duties of police to include specialists in welfare checks, non-moving traffic enforcement and mental health, but I can’t allow that we should endure continual, unpunished, dangerous and anarchist activities on our streets due to lack of law enforcement. Forget about broken taillights; stop the street racing.
And rather than counting on 911 reports minutes and hours after the event, the police might try just sitting on our streets here in St. Johns with their windows down and listen. Sit on my front porch and listen; it is all right there. We as a community must do much better.
Clifford Schrock, Portland
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July 18, 2021 at 07:04PM
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