Reckless driver stopped 35 times in 3 years

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"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.

"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, passing at an intersection and reckless driving. He's also been cited at least ten times for driving while suspended or revoked.

Each time police stop Chaplin, they find he has no license plates, no registration, no insurance, and no valid license.

"You don’t have ID on you?" an officer asks during one stop.

"No," Chaplin answers, before lighting up a cigarette.

Each time, they watch him drive away - illegally.

"You just let him go to continue violating the law," said Tristain Thomas, an Appleton man whose sister was recently killed in crash in Milwaukee. The driver who slammed into her car is charged with operating while revoked causing death.

"It's been very difficult," Thomas said.

Thomas watched a series of body camera and squad car videos obtained by FOX6 Investigators that document five of Chaplin's traffic stops in the summer of 2021. In one video, an officer hands Chaplin a citation, then gives him a ‘fist bump’ before sending him on his way.
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