{"id":456475,"date":"2026-09-07T19:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:10:29","slug":"authorities-say-crackdown-on-la-street-takeover-only-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456475\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Say Crackdown on LA Street Takeover `Only the Beginning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; &#8230; We have an apartment building just right around the corner and we have good families and folks who are trying to live their lives. Every single weekend this intersection was taken over by this illegal racing,&#8221; McOsker added. &#8220;So we&#8217;re sticking up especially for the families who need to live in our neighborhoods and live in peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The illegal gatherings have plagued the county for the last few years but have increased markedly in recent weeks, with some takeovers leading to robberies of nearby retail stores. Until recently, most of the takeovers resulted in no arrests, as participants and spectators scatter when police arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the LASD detailed measures it has launched to combat the wave of street takeovers and associated crimes, stating that it was working to &#8220;identify and hold organizers and participants accountable through arrests, vehicle impounds, citations and criminal prosecution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8221; &#8230; We have an apartment building just right around the corner and we have good families and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-456475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}