A Redlands Police Department video has put a public face on a problem the agency says is worth a community-wide warning: off-road electric motorcycles being ridden on public streets, . Their riders are also causing issues when trying to escape being caught. A video shared to Facebook makes the case in two parts. One part is shot from a Redlands motorcycle officer’s perspective and the other is shot from the air.
According to the department’s “Life Lessons with RPD” post, the video opens with a motorcycle officer following a rider on a small, dark electric motorcycle through a suburban Redlands neighborhood. The bike has the profile of an electric dirt bike rather than a street-legal motorcycle. A second rider comes into frame.
The riders then move away from the officer. The footage cuts between the motorcycle officer’s perspective and a separate camera shot from high above the city. That second perspective is a Redlands police drone the department calls Drone Mav-1…