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.
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.