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MichMan

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2. Good luck with that

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Mon May 13, 2019, 06:53 PM

May 2019

"Fox-2's report had quoted a department spokeswoman as saying, "There are no city ordinances on the books for ATVs," adding, "The problem seen by our Traffic Safety Division is that the ATV drivers will take off from the police and by policy, we cannot chase them for traffic violations."

Since they are unregistered and unlicensed, how are the police ever going to apprehend any of them if they take off?

This has been a huge issue in Detroit as well for the last several years. Just today a Michigan State Police was sentenced to 5-10 years for manslaughter after tasering a teenager who fled from the police when they tried to stop him.

Here is a video from Detroit. Would you want to put up with this in your city?

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St. Louis Police Will Enforce ATV Ban on City Streets, Effective Immediately, Chief Says [View all] Sherman A1 May 2019 OP

Thanks for posting. Getting to be a problem, hopefully they'll do something like take their... SWBTATTReg May 2019 #1

Good luck with that MichMan May 2019 #2

According to the article Sherman A1 May 2019 #3

Can only enforce the law if those riding the ATV's stop when pulled over instead of fleeing MichMan May 2019 #4

Some will certainly get away Sherman A1 May 2019 #5