MILWAUKEE - "The crisis has not changed."That is what 10th District Milwaukee Alderman Michael Murphy said nearly two years after a task force he chaired made dozens of recommendations to curb reckless driving.Milwaukee's City-County Carjacking and Reckless Driving Task Force issued a 35-page final report in June 2020.
FOX6 Investigators found a driver whose record of traffic violations is 2 pages longer. 24-year-old Dirul Chaplin doesn't seem worried about the consequences of his behavior."Why you all got to, like, I’m on a chase or something?" Chaplin asked after a Milwaukee Police officer pulled him over for blowing a red light and a stop sign near 4th and Maple in August 2021.SIGN UP TODAY: Get daily headlines, breaking news emails from FOX6 News"I got to catch up to you, right?" the officer replied.Chaplin wasn't in the mood for a long wait."I can’t just give you my name and stuff, so I can hurry up the process?" he said. "'Cause I really got to go."When Milwaukee politicians talk about reckless drivers, they might as well refer to Chaplin by name.In the last three years, police in southeast Wisconsin have stopped him at least 35 times.
Between 2019 and 2021, Milwaukee police pulled Chaplin over 21 times. Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies, nine times. Glendale and Elm Grove Police also stopped him at least once apiece.
And those are just the ones we know about."You’ve got the worst driving record I’ve ever seen," a Milwaukee Police officer said to Chaplin after stopping him for going 66 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone last summer.Over a three-year period, Chaplin has been cited twelve times for speeding, three times for running red lights, and once each for fleeing, unsafe cutting, endangering safety,.