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Posted: 12/12/2018 8:58:03 PM EST

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More expensive.

Posted: 12/12/2018 8:58:23 PM EST

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I remember when Maryland state troopers went from the brown to the two tone that added a camo green. Everyone used to say it was better to hide in the woods and pop you.

Posted: 12/12/2018 8:58:46 PM EST

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Posted: 12/12/2018 9:00:42 PM EST

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Why aren’t police cars still cars?

Forfeiture of drug money’s.

Yet we pay for the gas to feed a fleet of sawed off suburbans

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You drinking?

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:01:39 PM EST

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Something...something...tier 1 military tactical something or another...

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Yeah, sure. If you think Barney Fife is tier one tactical.

Our shit is white with stickers that fade in the Florida sun after a year not to mention our shit is old as fuck with high miles. I’m rockin a super dropper ultra tactical 2007 silver unmarked Crown Vic with 148k, drivers door ready to fall off, severe lifter noise, paint chipping and a siren that sounds like a cat getting raped. Yeah, veeeery tacticool tier one fo show.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:02:03 PM EST

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There's a suburb I drive through sometimes that is a low crime area but they're ticket writing fiends. (Although I did talk my way out of a ticket with them two years ago).

Anyway they have a sort of blackish/grey police car with blackish/grey writing. You can barely tell it says police. It looks really sharp but I assume a car like that is intended for writing tickets.

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There's a suburb I drive through sometimes that is a low crime area but they're ticket writing fiends. (Although I did talk my way out of a ticket with them two years ago).

Anyway they have a sort of blackish/grey police car with blackish/grey writing. You can barely tell it says police. It looks really sharp but I assume a car like that is intended for writing tickets.

You get stopped an awful lot.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:02:06 PM EST

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Why aren’t police cars still cars?

Forfeiture of drug money’s.

Yet we pay for the gas to feed a fleet of sawed off suburbans

You drinking?

Man, I’m drinking and it doesn’t make any sense to me.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:02:38 PM EST

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Revenues.

Black and Whites stick out like a sore thumb.

People stay in tard mode longer when the blue challenger is just cruising along unassumingly.

We have a half dozen sneaky low pro ticket writing cars and a bunch of black/white,SUV's for doing police work.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:03:23 PM EST

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In this thread, arfcom hates government fiscal responsibility.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:03:28 PM EST

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You get stopped an awful lot.

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Never seems to stick. Weird. I must be innocent.

Last time I got stopped it was actually in a town where I go to court. Cop just laughed at me and drove off.

I was actually innocent once. I got pulled over for using my cell phone when I wasn't. It was in my briefcase in the back seat He really thought I was on the phone and seemed half convinced I was lying. I felt bad about that one even though I didn't do anything.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:04:37 PM EST

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My son asked, I don't know

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You could always tell him that penguins are black and white! Aint that enough?

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:05:12 PM EST

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Tell him it be racist.

White men placing black men in the back of a black & white police car.

so say the leftist nuts

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:05:46 PM EST

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Some agencies never had black and white cars. It's not the universal thing that some folks think.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:07:11 PM EST

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A few years ago the fed Gov supposedly would give a shit ton of grant money to buy new vehicles and equipment if they were painted black and white
Something about being easily recognizable that it was law enforcement. We didnt do it and were just stuck with shit equipment and rides lol.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:08:13 PM EST

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Since we are on the subject the North Dakota Troopers recently started running black cruisers. They had been white forever. Of course all the expert traffic safety citizens here made a fuss about them being less visible at night. Guess they can’t see the invisible blinding led lights.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:08:49 PM EST

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Just trying to be fiscally responsible with the taxpayer's money amirite?

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:09:16 PM EST

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The vast majority around here are, PD and CHP. Always have been. There are a few "stealth" cars white with white lettering, but most all patrol cars are black and white.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:10:30 PM EST

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There's a suburb I drive through sometimes that is a low crime area but they're ticket writing fiends. (Although I did talk my way out of a ticket with them two years ago).

Anyway they have a sort of blackish/grey police car with blackish/grey writing. You can barely tell it says police. It looks really sharp but I assume a car like that is intended for writing tickets.

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So my agency doesn’t have any cool cars like that. I’ll occasionally use detective cars for surveillance or special assignments, but we use marked cars 98% of the time. I’m nearly positive the stealthiness of a squad has no bearing on citations written. The average motorist is terrible at driving

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:11:58 PM EST

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In Florida green and white are the official colors for Sheriffs.

30.46 Sheriffs; motor vehicles color combination; badges; simulation prohibited; penalties.—
(1) The color combination of forest green and white is adopted as the official color for use on the motor vehicles and motorcycles used by the various sheriffs of Florida and their deputies.
(2) For purposes of uniformity and in aid of the recognition of their official identity by the public, a badge in the shape of a five-pointed star with a replica of the great seal of Florida with the map of Florida superimposed thereon inscribed in the center is designated as the official badge to be worn by the sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of all counties of the state.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person other than the sheriffs of Florida and their deputies, to color or cause to be colored any motor vehicle or motorcycle the same or similar color combination prescribed herein; provided, however, that any municipal police department or other law enforcement agency or any private person or concern using the same or similar color combination as of the date of this act shall be permitted to continue to use such colors until such time as new colors are adopted by such agencies, or private person or concern.
(4) It shall be unlawful for any person other than sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to wear an official sheriff’s badge as prescribed herein, or to wear a badge or insignia of such similarity to the official sheriff’s badge as to be indistinguishable therefrom at a distance of 20 feet; provided, nothing therein shall be construed to prevent members of any military, fraternal, or similar organization or any other law enforcement officer from wearing any insignia officially adopted or worn prior to the effective date of this section.
(5) Violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ch. 57-3; s. 13, ch. 71-136.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:14:55 PM EST

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So penguins could make bait threads?

Lots are still black and white. Lots aren't. Why did army change camo patterns? why dont gas station employees still wear uniforms and pump your gas? who gives a fuck?

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:15:15 PM EST

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Around here all the LE have plain white cars or trucks. Other departments I've seen have vehicles that are colored so they blend right in.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:16:27 PM EST

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I don’t ever remember MA State Police cars being black and white. They’ve been blue since I was a kid in the early 70’s. VT State Police cars have always been green.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:16:43 PM EST

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Because we now have high definition color televisions.
How is your town gonna score a COPS TV spot with a boring B&W cop car....

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:19:39 PM EST

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So my agency doesn't have any cool cars like that. I'll occasionally use detective cars for surveillance or special assignments, but we use marked cars 98% of the time. I'm nearly positive the stealthiness of a squad has no bearing on citations written. The average motorist is terrible at driving

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I rode around in a marked car once. The officer basically said that he could write his month's tickets in a day if he wanted to. He parked in a u turn the snow plows had cleared. He did kind of try to put the patrol car so it was partially obscured by a snow bank, but it was still clearly visible as a dark color car with the old tall light bar.

Most people did slow down as they came over the horizon line, but many appeared to either not see the car or only see it when they were nearly on it

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:20:57 PM EST

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My understanding is that in the 1990's as the 'Community Policing' push happened, they began doing away with the black and white schemes and going to the colorful stickers for the 'community friendly' look.

My department switched back to black and white maybe around the '07 time frame. We were the second department in my county to do so and the rest weren't far behind.

-K

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:21:06 PM EST

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My local area:

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:27:00 PM EST

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MY hometown went to black and white a few years ago. They were all white with a blue stripe for as long as I can remember before that. I like the black and white better.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:29:45 PM EST

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This and solid color cars have better resale values than black/white patrol cars....

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^ this.

B&W cars probably cost $1000 more to purchase, plus they're worth $1000 less when they're sold.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:31:22 PM EST

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I rode around in a marked car once. The officer basically said that he could write his month's tickets in a day if he wanted to. He parked in a u turn the snow plows had cleared. He did kind of try to put the patrol car so it was partially obscured by a snow bank, but it was still clearly visible as a dark color car with the old tall light bar.

Most people did slow down as they came over the horizon line, but many appeared to either not see the car or only see it when they were nearly on it

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Ya I mean it isn’t even slightly difficult to cut tickets. My assigned patrol beat on third shift? I’m genuinely impressed when I pull someone over and they have a valid license and insurance. Like you can commit nearly all traffic violations and if I pull you over and are polite with a valid DL and insurance, then fuck it. You get a warning, you get a warning, everyone gets a warning! I am the Oprah of verbal warnings.

Posted: 12/12/2018 9:32:07 PM EST

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Cause black and white cars are "scary" and other colors are "happy and friendly".

Posted: 12/12/2018 10:00:14 PM EST

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500 extra dollars a car? Whats the average CHP pension?

Posted: 12/12/2018 10:01:52 PM EST

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My city, county, and the CHP are mostly all black and white.

Posted: 12/12/2018 10:09:28 PM EST

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Down in Miami we called them Green and Whites for MDPD.

Posted: 12/12/2018 10:10:40 PM EST

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Because you can buy fancy sticker a lot cheaper the a 2 color paint job.

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Also surplussing the car is easier when you can remove the decals.

Posted: 12/12/2018 10:13:04 PM EST

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They are around here.

Posted: 12/12/2018 10:18:16 PM EST

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Down in Miami we called them Green and Whites for MDPD.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dbzf8KIXkAANIP-.jpg

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Metro Dade told the state to take those green uniforms and shove em"

King Kong ain't got nothin on Miami Vice!

Posted: 12/12/2018 10:21:45 PM EST

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Preferences of command staff.

Posted: 12/12/2018 11:08:04 PM EST

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Because it used to be that people painted them black and white so to be easily identified to allow the civilians to find them when they needed help. You know. To serve and protect.

Now they just want to ticket you and abuse their power. Easier to do that when they can sneak up on you in a black squad with low profile lights.

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THIS

Posted: 12/12/2018 11:48:53 PM EST

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My son asked, I don't know

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Ours are, funny enough, they were blue and white when I was a kid.

Posted: 12/12/2018 11:50:38 PM EST

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Drug interdiction guys love and prefer black and white cars.

Posted: 12/12/2018 11:53:58 PM EST

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Who knows.
Most of the county police departments around here have white cars with decals.
Virginia State Popo has silver and navy cars.

Posted: 12/13/2018 12:04:16 AM EST

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To my knowledge NC Highway Patrol has always been silver/black(or very dark blue).

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Posted: 12/13/2018 12:07:17 AM EST

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We've got black and whites here in Austin.

Posted: 12/13/2018 12:07:52 AM EST

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Because it is penguin colors.

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Posted: 12/13/2018 12:10:48 AM EST

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Because it used to be that people painted them black and white so to be easily identified to allow the civilians to find them when they needed help. You know. To serve and protect.

Now they just want to ticket you and abuse their power. Easier to do that when they can sneak up on you in a black squad with low profile lights.

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If you can’t tell your average police car apart from a normal vehicle on the road you might’ve caught the tard.