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That's not a traffic enforcement vehicle, that's a revenue generation vehicle.
A marked unit, with an officer with some street sense behind the wheel, can hide and sneak up on speeders very easily. It also has the deterrent factor for everyone who sees it. Not to mention the safety for the person being pulled over that they are actually being pulled over by a police officer, and not a rapist with a surplus crown vic and a suction cup light bar in the windshield.
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And when the public sees an unmarked vehicle with emergency lights on stopped behind a violator, they also say, "Oh fuck, the cops are everywhere, maybe I will let off on the gas."
I used to drive an F150 outfitted
with lights and siren to work every day as a detective. You know how many times I saw speeders running amok, then slowing when they saw a marked unit, then as soon as the marked unit was gone, driving like an ass again? You put enough LEOs in unmarked cars, and you tell the public, that will decrease the speeders, since they do not know where to look. It works.