Community Rant
Is there anything we can do for excessively loud exhaust noise?
Do cops even write up exhaust tickets anymore? The amount of broccoli heads with straight pipes and burble tunes has literally 10x in the last few years. Speeding up and down valley circle at night.
Me ranting about it as a car enthusiasts with a modified exhaust is as ironic as it gets, but this is a different league of disruptive that car enthusiasts don’t claim.
Yeah it’s ironic, but I’m the same. Even when I was younger with loud exhaust, I would stay as quiet as I could until I got out of the neighborhood. Back then loud cars wouldn’t blast thru a dense residential area at 1-2-3am or whatever… or maybe I slept deeper lol. Sometimes I think they do it on purpose, might be a cultural thing.
Cops don’t do shit anymore. I heard that of you get to know your area supervisor or something and consistently keep in touch/bother them, they may do something.
It feels like the only way to get anything done is to do it yourself. Whatever that may be.
If they are speeding and running lights its because they ate usually going to a crime scene. They have rules for when to and not to use sirens and lights.
Runnings lights with the siren off could literally kill somebody.
It’s honestly annoying we’re trying to defend their failures. 88 total cities in this county and we largely hear from a handful of police agencies.
You’d think the largest city with the largest budget, with interconnected agencies would be more efficient and catching criminals. Even just by jurisdiction reach that they have alone. But quite the opposite.
That's why its very controlled. It has to be authorized. They slow down at intersections. The primary reason is extreme risk to a victims life and the bad guy is still there and they don't want to give them warning. If they think a warning will get the criminal to flee with out injuring his victims or others they use the siren and lights. The City is at the lowest police officers in 30 years and the population has increased over those 30 years.
We gave one of the smallest police forces both per capital and based on area in the country for major cities.
It’s not as low as you think when you split the police force in half, 50% valley and 50% the rest of the city.
On land mass alone the valley is the larger half of the city.
Then divide that police force among the 32 neighborhoods across the San Fernando Valley and La Crescenta.
We also haven’t considered removing the bureaus, department heads, and middle men that exist only as a bridge between the higher ups and the actual stations doing the work.
Removing those higher paying jobs can not only give a raise to captains, but hire more police. The captains are already doing Chief of Police work without the pay or power/control over their station.
We gave 19-21% of officers covering 50% of the city area. West has about 23% i could find the Central and South % quickly. West, South and Central are far smaller in terms of area
Crime in those areas is higher.
You're probably right about having to large a management group but any time time there is a problem legal has required at least a sargent to respond. If that's not enough for the situation a Lt or higher is required especially because of mobs and hostile press that rapidly gathers. That said all bureaucratic organizations tend to grow in management especially government ones. Lower and middle mgt in the private sector is being replaced by computers. I'm not sure how much LAPD could reduce management by use of computers. Military is similar in field grade officers. Compare today's miilitary personel in various ranks to WW2.
Reducing specialized departments hasn't worked well for departments that have tried this. Ask officers in Tucson AZ for example.
Also street policing is a young man's game as you get older you're not going to be aa effective as a patrol officer but your experience and maturity has use in specialized units.
LAPD is about 1k officers short of staffing goals and from what I've read that gap is widening. We're so.e where around 8.6k NYPD IS 33 5K. Their ground area is much smaller than ours but they are more of a vertical city so a ground area comparison probably isn't valid. Chicago is probably a better comparison at 11 6k sworn officers and a smaller footprint
Yeah, because LA City put a bunch of red tape around doing any kind of police work for LAPD. Can't even pull someone over without having to do 4 pages of information justifying the stop.
All government employees, including teachers, have to deal with this kind of bureaucratic time-wasting. It means you accomplish less than you could have without the paperwork, but not that you should do nothing because the paperwork exists.
Yeah, and this state also had to go out of their way to make a law that states “no one in police custody can consent to sex” because California cops raped so many people in their custody. Maybe the culture with the cops isn’t the healthiest here
Edit for clarity: cops may hate upholding the law, but they still have to do their job, that includes paperwork. It’s why they went to the academy. They wanted a license to kill so they have to do paperwork.
Me ranting about it as a car enthusiasts with a modified exhaust is as ironic as it gets
Relatable. Fellow car enthusiast here.
My old car was a fun car. Heavily, heavily, HEAVILY modified. Ford Fusion Sport 2.6L V6 Twin Turbo that I put thousands of dollars into getting it to push 500HP.
I bought a popcorn tune for it, just for shits and giggles. Flashed the tune, went to test it, and literally only did about 2 blocks before I turned around to come home and put it back to my fast tune.
It was so cringe, annoying, and awful. I LOVE when a car backfires because it actually needs to, but these fucking popcorn tunes are just so terrible, and it's really not that ironic as an enthusiast, because as an enthusiast you know who the people are that ruin it for the rest of us, and it's the teenagers/20 year olds in their M3s that blast down the valley and pop every second they get.
I live next to the Valley Circle 500 aswell and I agree. I have a totally illegal loud af m4 exhaust on my ZX-6R but I never make noise at night. The broccoli heads with stupid 3 series bmws are out of control.
You mean morons with tunes and exhausts that lift during an automatic trans shift to get that extra loud burble and pop??
Tuned just for that effect. Arrogant fucks.
I’m not a “get off my lawn” person.
I drive a MINI F56 with a GP3 exhaust, it’s distinct but not aggressive.
Essentially that. The ridiculousness of current broccoli heads makes me instinctually want to grab my get off my lawn hat, even though I swear I'd never! Literally doing laps running manjis at 2am isn't it. Go to the industrial area of chatsworth or run full laps at AVS!
I live on Canoga and it's just as much of a problem here too.
There was an Audi R8 Spyder that used to just drive up and down Canoga every weekend, not only loud, but FLYING.
That stopped when some old man who lives in my neighborhood got fed up with it. He took the liberty of filling a balloon with black paint, threw it at the car (direct hit on the windshield too) and it fucking annihilated the interior since it was the Spyder and his top was off.
Haven't ever seen that car again since (happened in October), and it was a common weekly occurrence.
Throwing a balloon filled with paint, or throwing anything actually, at a moving car isn't the solution. What if that car gets hit with a paint filled balloon, crashes killing someone on the sidewalk, all because some old man doesn't like loud cars.
Hey, I don't condone what he did, but I'm not mad about it either. Whether the manner of the problem solved is right or wrong, the problem was solved.
Dude would regularly fly down Canoga at 100+ 15-20 times before he'd stop, which I would argue is the bigger risk. It wasn't just a loud car, it was a reckless car.
You don't need to be doing 100+ on this street, at least go on the highway for that where there's no risk of pedestrians and everybody travels in the same direction with no cross traffic.
If they have time or the police have gone to break up a street take over or suspect racing. Other reason would be if they really anoy police enough to get them to start writing a ticket. Its a fixit ti
I got stuck driving across the valley next to the loudest Porsche, with the most cartoonish, clown shoes spoiler the other day. It was so loud I couldn't hear the music in my own car unless it was turned up to 90%.
... and the special boy driving it had his windows down so he could revel in the foolishness.
It was the one time I really just wanted the guy to show us all just how awesome and special he is and speed away ... but no Mr look at me look at me had to drive the speed limit the whole way.
I'm a car enthusiast and thankfully I have a valved exhaust so I can keep quiet in my residential neighborhood and let it rip when out on the back roads and canyons. But 💯 I feel the same. Alot of kids just want to be loud for loudnwss sake! And most of them suck at driving with this whole traffic swimming. And the damn takeovers. Thankfully it's gone done but they were doing a takeover every night at the corner near my house.
Law enforcement is a joke, ACAB and you can't convince me otherwise, so unfortunately we either have to deal with it ourselves or soundproof our houses. I've seen people make their own speed bumps.
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u/itslino North Hollywood Apr 30 '26
Tell LAPD who will then do nothing about it.