Mayor Lurie and SFPD Tout Dirt Bike ‘Crackdown’ That Yielded a Measly Four Arrests

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/22/mayor-lurie-and-sfpd-tout-dirt-bike-crackdown-that-yielded-a-measly-four-arrests/Daniel Lurie and the SFPD held a press conference Monday to toot their horns over “a crackdown on dangerous stunt driving” of dirt bikes, but the four arrests seems like a drop in the bucket given the huge groups we typically see doing this. The extremely frequent occurrence of dirt bike gangs joyriding on weekends in San Francisco is a particularly infuriating phenomenon for many of us in SF. And one reason this is particularly infuriating is that the joyriders seem to hit the exact same streets every weekend, and at the exact same times. I’m not in law enforcement, but it seems like when suspects commit the same crime in the same place like