Has anyone noticed how unnoticeable they're making police cars now? All black vehicles, the lights on top are so skinny and flat they look like bike racks at night or far, the words on the car are painted dark gray to blend into black so it isn't easily spotted...
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Around my city they now have completely unmarked cars that - while moving among the traffic - dynamically read plates and measure the speed of the other cars around them, allowing them to issue tickets automatically all along. The cars are all different models, too. Here is one for example.
In my city, they changed the "normal" police cars to this dull, monotone paint job that's really hard to spot from far away. We've always had the black cars with dark gray lettering, but now even the standard cruisers are hard as shit to spot.
The only purpose of it is to make it harder for drivers to see cruisers when they're committing traffic infractions. It also makes it harder for people who could (theoretically) have a genuine need for help to spot a cruiser.
I also seriously question the legality of it. All of the black cruisers here do have "POLICE" on the side but you pretty much have to be within a few feet of the car and have light reflecting off of it from the exact right angle to even see the lettering. I'm assuming they need to identify themselves as police and that's why they bothered to put the lettering there, but what's the point if no human can actually read the lettering?
They did that where I live. I'm in the rural south and we mostly have to deal with city cops outside their jurisdiction (as if that makes a difference at all), and state troopers.
The city cops are in black Dodge Chargers and with the lights around the dashboard, making it impossible to really tell they are squad cars. They completely blend in with normal traffic and at night, you absolutely can't tell them apart from normal black cars. The only way to really make them out is by being close and realizing the Charger is fancy with better lighting and when the dashboard lights are all lit up. I can relate to where they say 'POLICE' on the sides, but it's hard to see that from a distance.
The state troopers are a whole other story. They have gold cars that look like some of kind of luxury car like a Mercedes Benz or BMW, and they have lights on the roof but they are flat and very hard to see on a bad day or dark at night. They are starting to transition though into black cars with a gold stripe and are hard to make out.
I have to note from living in the rural south; city cops usually live in small towns outside their jurisdiction. These small towns are usually scared shitless of police due to how they're harassed all the time for the hot spots the OP has mentioned, and cause the fucking state troopers will roam there and do whatever they want. Almost every bad experience I have with cops in my adulthood has come from state troopers.
Has anyone noticed how unnoticeable they're making police cars now? All black vehicles, the lights on top are so skinny and flat they look like bike racks at night or far, the words on the car are painted dark gray to blend into black so it isn't easily spotted... Edit: spelling
Around my city they now have completely unmarked cars that - while moving among the traffic - dynamically read plates and measure the speed of the other cars around them, allowing them to issue tickets automatically all along. The cars are all different models, too. Here is one for example.
In America, they steal people's cars and retrofit them with sirens and lights so they can blend in better.
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In my city, they changed the "normal" police cars to this dull, monotone paint job that's really hard to spot from far away. We've always had the black cars with dark gray lettering, but now even the standard cruisers are hard as shit to spot.
The only purpose of it is to make it harder for drivers to see cruisers when they're committing traffic infractions. It also makes it harder for people who could (theoretically) have a genuine need for help to spot a cruiser.
I also seriously question the legality of it. All of the black cruisers here do have "POLICE" on the side but you pretty much have to be within a few feet of the car and have light reflecting off of it from the exact right angle to even see the lettering. I'm assuming they need to identify themselves as police and that's why they bothered to put the lettering there, but what's the point if no human can actually read the lettering?
They did that where I live. I'm in the rural south and we mostly have to deal with city cops outside their jurisdiction (as if that makes a difference at all), and state troopers.
The city cops are in black Dodge Chargers and with the lights around the dashboard, making it impossible to really tell they are squad cars. They completely blend in with normal traffic and at night, you absolutely can't tell them apart from normal black cars. The only way to really make them out is by being close and realizing the Charger is fancy with better lighting and when the dashboard lights are all lit up. I can relate to where they say 'POLICE' on the sides, but it's hard to see that from a distance.
The state troopers are a whole other story. They have gold cars that look like some of kind of luxury car like a Mercedes Benz or BMW, and they have lights on the roof but they are flat and very hard to see on a bad day or dark at night. They are starting to transition though into black cars with a gold stripe and are hard to make out.
I have to note from living in the rural south; city cops usually live in small towns outside their jurisdiction. These small towns are usually scared shitless of police due to how they're harassed all the time for the hot spots the OP has mentioned, and cause the fucking state troopers will roam there and do whatever they want. Almost every bad experience I have with cops in my adulthood has come from state troopers.
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