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Just weeks after the city backed off its plan to construct a dirt bike track at Marion Park, we turn now to law enforcement, which has been working in its own way to crack down on illegal dirt bike riders. The long-running problem is that officers in patrol cars cannot pursue riders on bikes or ATVs.

With that end in mind, the Cleveland Division of Police has purchased its own small fleet of three dirt bikes — or, in our Modern Age of Euphemism, “multi-purpose off-road vehicles.” There are plans to purchase three more in the future.

“We’ll be able to pursue them with these vehicles,” James Muhic of CPD’s traffic commission told WEWS. “My officers will go down railroad tracks, upstairs, wherever you want to go we’re going to go with you.”

Upstairs!

A dirt bike chase on Saturday ended with a rider “wiping out” on the east side and an officer swooping in for arrests, according to the news station, which first reported on this department move.

This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2017.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

2 replies on “Cleveland Police Now Have Dirt Bikes of Their Own”

  2. They were trying to force drivers off East 55th on Sunday, the, 8th. Normally, I would not give a flying fuck (which is what they are) about what they do on their own turf, but I just happened to be heading to St. Stan’s for the annual Polish pigout,.

    So I had to watch them do one of their Linda Ronstadt maneuvers…”they Blue Bayou” …(my wife’s joke).

    Kill them all, and let a Higher Power sort them out..

    Chuckles the Clown

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