Will Louisiana State Police Continue Dirt Bike and ATV Enforcement After Mardi Gras?

I've been watching local social media cover this long-overdue victory, namely the Instagram page belonging to 'Empower You Nola', a safety advocacy and firearms training business owned by a former New Orleans Police Department officer.

Most comments support wholesale arrest and seizure of ATVs and dirt bikes, which are illegal to operate within city limits. They were allowed to rule our roads under the previous mayor, who catered to them.

City leaders must decide when 'enough's enough' 

Related:

• Troopers announce arrests, seizures of guns and 23 off-road vehicles near New Orleans parade route
• Mother of 2 dies 9 days after ATV hit-and-run
• La. FTO who lost leg after being struck by suspect’s ATV now able to walk without cane
• Man ‘Lied in Wait’ Before Fatally Shooting ATV Rider and Beloved Father, Then Said, 'I Killed Him': Police

The now-defunct NOPD federal consent decree was used as a smokescreen to allow riders to do dangerous stunts and flagrantly violate numerous other laws.

The previous mayoral administration covered for illegal dirt bike and ATV riders despite the 2014 death of a New Orleans resident struck by one.

This continued even after a sheriff's lieutenant in a nearby parish lost a leg trying to stop an ATV rider.

This is part of a national trend where mobs of riders intimidate drivers, do dangerous stunts, block busy intersections and attack anyone protesting their presence.

An ongoing dispute about ATV use in a Florida residential area ended with the rider getting murdered last year.

Nothing undermines public confidence like riders doing wheelies in front of NOPD officers-without consequences. The department looks cowardly, especially when it has no problem ticketing law abiding, low income drivers for expired plates or not having brake tags indicating emission inspections.

City leaders must decide when 'enough's enough' and stop coddling behavior that puts people's lives in danger and disturbs any semblance of the peace in neighborhoods used as racetracks.

Fortunately, the Louisiana State Police took action where New Orleans public safety team chooses not to.

Such mass displays are about showing dominance. Defiantly doing this tells the public they're beneath dirt bike and ATV riders and are powerless to stop them.

Failure to show greater dominance by pursuing and arresting riders sets the stage for people to feel local police are scared of these lawbreakers.

A question on many minds is, will the Louisiana State Police continue dirt bike and ATV enforcement after Mardi Gras is over?

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