Re: Report: Ponch Approved? California chooses Ford Explorer Police Interceptor as next patrol car

Jun 09, 2012 2 Replies

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:16:55 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote Re Re: Report: Ponch Approved? California chooses Ford Explorer Police Interceptor as next patrol car:


For
>the past couple decades the whole "police car" requirements thing has
>been nothing more than a way to justify spending a lot more money on
>big fast gas guzzling cars for fat officers then on any real need for
>the kind of performance that was specified. Now that you can't get a
>stripped down luxury car as a police car they are changing their
>requirements so they can get luxury SUVs. It's all a game where they
>waste your tax dollars specifiying things they don't need and that no
>private company would pay for if they were funding the fleet.

Well put.


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If they gave each patrolman a bus, they could list them all as green jobs.

Just wait. Eventually, there will be an exposé about rollovers and high fuel costs; and the politicians and public employee unions will line up to denounce . . . Ford.

I think that applied to SUV's that were based on truck chassis and had a high center of gravity. The Explorer sits on a Ford Taurus platform.

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