{"id":326515,"date":"2025-07-01T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/how-california-cops-are-now-using-simple-drones-to-catch-illegal-e-bike-riders\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:01:45","slug":"how-california-cops-are-now-using-simple-drones-to-catch-illegal-e-bike-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/how-california-cops-are-now-using-simple-drones-to-catch-illegal-e-bike-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"How California cops are now using simple drones to catch illegal e-bike riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/how-california-cops-are-now-using-simple-drones-to-catch-illegal-e-bike-riders.jpg\" \/>Police across the US are cracking down on illegal use of out-of-class e-bikes or non-street-legal electric motorcycles used on public roads. It used to be that if you sped off on an illegal electric dirt bike or mini bike after a traffic stop in California, there was a good chance you\u2019d get away. Most police departments don\u2019t want to engage in high-speed chases over these types of violations, especially if the rider isn\u2019t wearing a helmet or is weaving through dense traffic. And since these types of bikes almost never have license plates, merely outrunning or outmaneuvering a police cruiser through some bushes or over a sidewalk was usually enough to evade justice. But lately, a new kind of chase is happening \u2013 from above. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/07\/01\/how-california-cops-are-now-using-simple-drones-to-catch-illegal-e-bike-riders\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/how-california-cops-are-now-using-simple-drones-to-catch-illegal-e-bike-riders\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":326516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}