Police try to ERASE dangerous driving
Canadian race car champion Paul Tracy joins the fight to stamp out Extreme Driving
The recent crackdown by police on street racing and reckless driving on Toronto streets creates more issues than the one it solves. We have to ask ourselves who exactly are we penalizing, those who street race, or those who are car enthusiasts? It seems that the decision by police to randomly inspect "suspicious-looking" vehicles for illegal modifications does nothing but attempt to cloak the real problem behind a symbolic scare-straight tactic. "I'll get pulled over because I'm 21 and I've got an exhaust system" says one driver near his Nissan. Profiling car enthusiasts as street racers is no different than any other form of profiling by association. It unfairly discriminates against a person through no fault of their own, solely because of their surface appearance. We need to find a more effective and direct way of nailing speed demons on the road rather than stopping the first set of hot wheels we see.
Jamie Chan
Summer Coordinator
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