“It’s an adrenaline rush — it’s hard to explain — but you feel free in the moment,” said Draco, the name the 21-yearold uses on the circuit of street drifters.
“You know, it’s one of the few times where I feel I am in control of my destiny.”
The Takeover’s in Chicago are organized in minutes through a social network that taps into the culture of street racing. Many times, people leaving a meet broken up by police will drive around until getting the coordinates of another meet that same night. Across the country, the underbelly of street racing is plagued by murder, drugs, and now organized gangs.
The street racing crews are becoming highly organized criminal syndicates, broken down by neighborhoods, or affiliations with existing gangs.
inside cities like San Antonio, Chicago, Milwaukee, Oakland, street racing has not only become a police issue, but a political issue.
Law Enforcement across the country are struggling to crack down or understand the new phenomenon...
On Sunday October 23, 5 people were shot and 3 young men were killed, when gang warfare broke out inside a street racing meet up in a working-class Chicago neighborhood. The Chicago Police Department is investigating this as a mass shooting.
“As the officers were responding, we received a ShotSpotter alert of at least 13 rounds.”
“Approximately 100 cars had gained control of an intersection” CPD Commander Don Jerome said.
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-Draco Chicago Street Racer
“We ain’t afraid to die, for us this is our life, it’s in our blood and street racing is a family.”
