Purpose
Provide a concise update on enforcement and planning efforts to address aggressive driving, illegal racing, and excessive vehicular noise.
Key Enforcement Strategies

• Interagency Collaboration: Partner with Montana Highway Patrol (SET) and Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office for saturation patrols in high?risk corridors.
• Technology & Data Collection: Deploy speed trailers, road tubes, and explore camera modules to measure speed/noise.
• Ordinance Amendment: Draft revisions to BMCC noise ordinance (modeled on Cheyenne, WY).
• Felony Eluding Enforcement: Effective October 2025, fleeing an officer during a stop is a felony.
• Public Awareness Campaign: Launch media outreach with PW, PD, PIO, CPAB, and citizen partners.
• Traffic Checkpoints: Research on the legality and feasibility of periodic checkpoints.
• Vehicle Impoundment: Consider impoundment for chronic offenders (DUI, no insurance).

Challenges

• Pursuit Risks: High?speed evasions endanger the public and officers.
• Group Dynamics: Car meets complicate enforcement.
• Resource Allocation: Competing priorities (violent crime, drugs).
• Technology Costs/Limitations: O&M, subscriptions, legal hurdles.
• Evidence Issues: Driver identification challenges (helmets, no plates).

Public Works Considerations

• Determining effective designs
  • Tree placement impacts (King Ave West preferable to Shiloh).
• Property owner buy-in required.

Next Steps

• Confirm goals for initiative
• Continue PD/PW coordination meetings.
• Collect baseline statistics in target corridors.
• Draft ordinance amendment for Council review.
• Provide ongoing progress updates.

Utilize information for further discussion and future actions related to CM initiative on aggressive driving and excessive noise.  City staff has collected speed, volume and noise data for several corridors and will present the data to City Council for use in discussing strategies to address the concerns. 

Police Department, law enforcement partners, Public Works, and partners. 

City Council may:

• Approve; or,
• Not Approve

None at this time.  For future discussion.  

Information presented is for further council discussion and direction on aggressive driving initiative.