re: BR street racers set fire to Siegen Ln parking lot, shut down I-10 with car stunts.

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Patrol Officers assigned to shifts are often overstretched and understaffed in most mid size cities on Saturday nights during peak hours, 10pm-3am, when this occurred. They often don’t have the time or additional resources to effect arrest and seizures of crowds in excess of 20-40 vehicles and spectators.

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Be reasonable.

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Be reasonable? How many people minding their own business getting killed in traffic wrecks is acceptable to you? Burbank and Lee? It's a matter of when (not if) some LSU students going to get killed by one of these criminals? But the police have better things to do at peak time b/t 2200-0300? What do they have going on that is more important than proving to the community that it is governed by a system of laws? You say "intelligence gathering, infiltration of networks"...it ain't that sophisticated. This is nothing more than meetups arranged on social media. As I said, get a car, mount some cameras, and join the crowd.

Grants drive a lot of police departments. Those DWI checkpoints in a lot of areas are often federal grants. Gretna had a grant for a criminal task force. Grants get the fancy command post RVs that St. Charles, Lafourche, and others have. Grants paid for most of the high water vehicles (i.e. deuce and a halfs) that some of the NOLA area departments got. That's why a lot of departments hire grant writers - to get money to do enhanced enforcement and get equipment. It IS worth the hassle. Otherwise, you can get what BR has got.