A new law two years in the making was approved Tuesday, allowing the City of Milwaukee to tow and impound any vehicle driven recklessly. As Jeramey Jannene reports for Urban Milwaukee, the advancement represents the pinnacle of an escalating series of laws targeting dangerous driving over the past several years — beginning with a 2022 law allowing the city to impound vehicles driven recklessly if they were also unregistered and a 2023 amendment extending impoundment to cases where the the vehicle has an unpaid reckless driving citation.
Tuesday’s move was lauded by Milwaukee Police and driven by Alderman Lamont Westmoreland.
“Part of my job is to look for ineffective laws that don’t work, and that was one of them,” Westmoreland told Urban Milwaukee. “Somebody driving 100 mph down Capitol Drive — that wasn’t their first time doing that.”…