Residents are becoming increasingly concerned about the youth drag racing e-bikes and cars driving recklessly at the Palisades Recreation Center after the park is closed.
Other residents see youth on bikes doing dangerous activities like driving on one wheel, many are not wearing helmets. Parents who have pre-teens and teens who have these bikes need to step up and tell their kids to stop. If they don’t, there is a good chance that an accident will take a youth’s life or even cause an accident that will leave a young person paralyzed for life.
One resident wrote, “at 10:30 p.m. Friday night, the park has been overtaken by minors on illegal class 3 E-Bikes. There were no Los Angeles Police to be found near the Palisades Recreation Center or adjacent areas of town.
“There were more than 100 kids in town and in the park, well past curfew,” the resident said. “Currently the Rec Center is the site of drag racing by underage minors on Class 3 E-Bikes; which are illegal for them to be operating.”
The resident was asked about calling 911. “The emergency hotline simply does not pick up,” the resident said, “I was on hold last night for more than an hour.” The resident sent videos to police and to L.A. City Recreation and Parks General Manager Jimmy Kim.
“When one of these 14-year-olds is killed racing these bikes in the park, you and Jimmy Kim will not be able to say you were not warned,” the resident said.
The resident also sent a license plate of the car doing doughnuts. Saturday night the same scenario was repeated with e-bikes and cars driving dangerously through the park.
If this unacceptable activity happens after the park closes, maybe gates can be placed at the entrance to the park. The gates would be closed when the park closes.
Thank you for reporting this. I would like to clarify that in addition to class 3 bikes, there are also many kids riding motorized dirt bikes—essentially motorcycles—hence the loud engines you can hear in the videos.
No cops = this