Police boost use of unmarked cars to target speeders - USATODAY.com
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We don't get the really obsucre ummarked cars down here yet. Just crown vics and chargers. Even the unmarked Yukons are pretty rare and their pretty easy to spot anyways.
I thought this link was interesting thoiugh. I didn't know the caprice was being relaunched.
Chevrolet rolling out Caprice police car next June - Drive On: A conversation about the cars and trucks we drive - USATODAY.com
Something to give the Taurus some competition.
Doesn't phase me. I know what to look for already. Even with new unmarked units.
isn't that the point to get them to stop being unsafe? by being visible drivers slow down. the only thing they are upset about is the loss of revenue thats why to push. with states strapped for cash they are looking for new sources of revenue....Quote:
Police departments say the move is necessary because some of the nation's worst, habitual speeders constantly spot marked cars in time to avoid hefty fines that could change their behavior.
I have seen some of them on the highways giving tickets.It's a shame that they have to resort to this now.
There was talk of another car a few months ago. I can't recall which one. I do not like unmarked cars of any kind. Each model added makes it worse for the driver.
That Caprice looks like a nice car. It needs another 100 HP though. 0-60 in 6 seconds, they need it to do it in 4. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by erickonphoenix
With CVPI production ceasing in 2011, a few different options have come up so that other companies can try and get at Ford's overall monopoly on the police car industry...and Ford has replied, too.
I know of a few new police cars being launched in the next two or so years:
Chevrolet Caprice (as mentioned above)
Ford Interceptor
Carbon Motors E7
We'll see what happens. I think the only intention for the new Ford Interceptor is so that they don't lose their huge customer base in the law enforcement field. Ford announced the end of the CVPI a while before they announced the launch of the new Interceptor.
The E7 is a cool one since it's built solely for law enforcement use but it will likely be expensive and it can't be customized much. It also has really no resale value since it's dedicated to police use - I think they were supposed to set up a plan for police to trade them back in when they reach their end to get credit for a new car. I think Carbon Motors may be expecting larger sales than will occur - while it's neat and something that police may want, I doubt the cost will fit into the budget.
Plus there's the other ones already in use like the Chevy Impala and the Dodge Charger. Camaros were used in small amounts but widespread, especially for highway patrols, back in the early-2000s. The Mustang was used, too...I'm surprised neither (or comparable vehicles) of them have moved forward much yet as higher-power police cars since their rebuild. I've seen both a few times as command vehicles or unmarked vehicles but not much in terms of regular, marked use.
"After I got around it, in the rearview mirror I could see him put on his Smokey Bear hat,"
LOL :D, That would suck. I saw a few of those Mustangs when I lived in South Bend.
I have to take that back..... my friend told me that he saw a red Mustang Cobra undercover.... w t f
By Jeff Rivenbark - email
BURKE COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - A Tennessee man who survived a traffic accident and was looking for his lost cell phone, died after he was hit by a truck early Thursday morning.
Man survives car crash, but gets killed while looking for lost - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-
Man survives car crash, but gets killed while looking for lost cell phone
The accident happened around 3 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-40 in Burke County.
According to Sgt. D.B. Conley with the North Carolina Highway Patrol, John Franklin, 41, of Kingsport, TN, was traveling eastbound on I-40.
He struck a guardrail and flipped his vehicle near mile marker 98.
A driver in a tractor-trailer stopped to assist Franklin who appeared to be uninjured.
The driver of the tractor-trailer told the highway patrol that Franklin then walked out onto I-40 to look for his cell phone when he was struck and killed by a driver in a 1999 Ford F-150 traveling eastbound.
Conley says the case will be turned over to the district attorney's office to determine if any charges should be filed against the driver of the Ford F-150.
At least in NY, the State Police have to be in MARKED vehicles. Local agencies seem to be a different story altogether unfortunately.:mad:
I can't believe some of the cars / vans I've seen down here used for "Enforcement".
Down here in South Florida, they literally take just about any car confiscated and use it. I've seen Dodge Caravans, Honda Accords, Green Mustangs, Pick Up trucks....I don't think ANY vehicle is off limits. And they don't repaint them. just tint the windows black so you cant see in.
I've seen 3 and 4 police dudes come jumping out of some cars I NEVER in 1000 years would have suspected was a Police car.
We've also had more than a few incidences of people who were NOT police putting blue lights in Beemers and chargers etc and robbing people.
Welcome to Cuba, er uhhh Haiti, I mean Mexico, I mean South Florida darnit.
I saw one of those in El Paso, Texas a few weeks ago! Bright red with stealth lights in the back deck and tail lamps. When you got right beside it, you could read the stealth decals on the doors, but only then! It was stopped at a wreck, and we figured it was some volunteer fireman or something til we got next to it. I've got vid of it somewhere I need to download.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solidjake
There are a lot of unmarked UHP cars, but they still use the same sloppy C/O Ka, so even though I may not know WHO, I do know WHERE.
Florida is well known for unique unmarked cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by brasstownbald
And frankly unmarked cars are fine the question is their pursuit policy. Specifically because I don't stop for random unmarked cars. If I stopped for every clown waving a badge at me out a car window i wouldn't get anywhere.
thankfully, CA traffic enforcement by law can only be done by marked vehicles and marked officers. No unmarked cars here with radar in them. One of the few things I enjoy about CA laws, including Written Trails (One of the few places where you get 2 chances to beat your tickets) and CVC 22350 CA Basic Speed Law which is so easy to beat, and 95% of speeding tickets are off of this law :rolleyes:
(Yes, I even know the Code, along with the more annoying brother, CVC 22349 which is exceeding 65 MPH, much harder to beat. Anyone on this board should know CVC 22350 who lives in CA)
Do you guys have any "stealth" cars out in CA?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sector_15504
True. We get more stealth cars like this one:Quote:
Originally Posted by erickonphoenix
http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...ge-charger.jpg
:lol: Remember Htown's RST program though? I remember you reporting a blue Ford Taurus as one of the spotter cars and the news said HPD was using a stretch limo too.
I never saw them use anything more than Taurus' but that RST goldmine dried up when the accountants found their tickets per officer ratio were horrible. I'm sure they still pull out the Taurus' sometimes but I never hear them or see them.Quote:
Originally Posted by snoopyc4