C'mon now...how sneaky can you get?!?!?

Not many would get away from you, would they?

Around these parts about 10 years ago the local police used a white Trans Am. Finally had to retire it because many women complained about it not looking like a cop car.

Recall many years ago when I lived in the DC area the Maryland State Police used a drug-confiscated 57 Ford Ranchero with a 425HP Ford 427 engine.

That's what I was thinking. Maybe a GT-R...

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Up here in Ontario, the province's cops are using some Buicks, unmarked of course. I've seen at least two, both painted non-metallic black.

Plus one city is using the standard Crown Vic, but with a taxi-light on the roof! It doesn't say "TAXI" though, it just has a big phone-number. You need to get up close before you see that, in /very/ small letters above the phone-number, it says "POLICE". And the phone-number is that of the local cops.

Bastards.

Now that's cool!

I recall at one stage we had all sorts of vehicles...with surfboards on the roof.

My Bastards are sneakier than your Bastards

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Now there's a taunt for the ages...

The Wake County NC Sheriff's Department has a Corvette they use. I have seen it pull over a car. It was a drug seizure. I persoanlly think the Sheriff should be voted out of office for keeping it. In theory it should have been sold the Corvette and turned the money over to the local school system (NC rule). Instead the Sheriff kept the Corvette and uses it as a play toy. I've never like the idea that law enforcement can sieze things becasue of some hypothetical connection to a crime, and this case is, at least in my mind, especially disgusting.

Ed

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I suppose it's like that little town called "Bell?" You've got there where the chief honcho gets $788,000 per annum. (Twice the Presidents $400,000). Apparently they can set their own pay in closed session and no one knows what they are paid apart from their pension company. Was on our programme called "Newsnight" national news last night.

The Mayor and COP resigned, but they are getting great pensions!

This is a case of the local residents not paying attention.

Ed

many locations are adopting encrypted radio for their police, they have unmarked cars, secret pay raising sessions. next come secret arrests, secret jails, secret trials, and secret executions. Some folks are getting in trouble for videorecording cops doing their jobs in public where there is no expectation of privacy.

dangerous times ahead.

Brings back memories... I was driving through downstate Illinois in the late '60s and just happened to see a shadow under a billboard in time to slow down. Car was a Corvette Sting Ray & guy inside was wearing a Smokey the Bear hat and holding a radar gun.

So now OPP is responsible for killing Kenny?

Charles Grozny

Don't ya just love that? The schools cry out for money, they have to lay off cops, and these morons pay themselves +$500,000 salaries (to be sure, I don't know if Bell has had to lay anyone off, but Calif in general is in real monetary trouble, and one city has lkaid off it's police force and is 'outsourcing' to the Sheriff's dept and the neighboring town's police dept...)

If these guys are Republicans, I'm becoming a Democrat...

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Are there Brown Shirts available? ;)

Appropriate music:

Die Fahne hoch Die Reihen dicht geshlossen SA marchiert Mit ruhig festen Schritt.

Or a new set of words

Heil Nobama The Savior of the Nation, Heil Nobama god incarnation We look to you for our salvation We exist only to please the god - Nobama.

You could substitute Joe's favorite god, Beelzebub. Means the same thing.

Charles Grozny

Nice, I'd call that a bait car for racing.

I recall on 128 the MA state police used, of all things, a red ford panel van. Funniest thing to see a mustang pulled over with a red van behind it with a cop writing a ticket. The only give-away were the blues in the grill. They also had a blacked out Ford Probe GT.

Also, in Billings/southern Montana they had late 90s Z28 camaros. The speed limit at that time during the day was "reasonable and prudent" Apparently they needed the Z28s to enforce prudent.

Are you from Mass?

Are you the John with the Corolla? For sale? ;p

Do you remember when they had an 18 wheeler? They used it on the Pike a lot. It would be set up with the flashers and the the orange triangles, and up by the cab a state trooper with a radar gun, and a chase cruiser hidden from view.

At the Lee end of the pike (westfield barracks, I think) they had a 1993 Lincoln MK VIII...Ford GAVE them to them!

Is a 240MPH GT-R "prudent"? :)