It makes me sick seeing all these expensive police cars. A Dodge Viper, really?
Law enforcement is a for profit industry, and in many cases is legalized extortion.
What is the best looking State Police/Highway Patrol cars that you see on the road?
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Some of the cars they use now, the Dodge Magnums are a result of Ford discontinuing the very popular Crown Vic. The Kansas Highway Patrol still uses the Crown Vic, as they had several in their inventory. However that should just about be depleted. Some of the local KHP have now been issued the Mustangs, and Magnums. One of the Troops I worked with years ago as a Police Officer, was issue a new Mustang. It looks sharp, has no fancy striping, decals or lightbars. It's a white, plain wrapper, the KHP shield is smaller. You can't tell it's a cruiser. What I've been told by a very good informant (my wife, dispatcher for the local S.O.) is that this car will flat run. He's had it up to 158 mph. -
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Any of the Ford Mustangs
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Only in Texas....
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A Dodge Viper and a Hummer H2. Does that honestly not disgust anybody else??
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My favorite has to be the Transito officer in a marked VW bug complete with light bar who stopped me for a red light violation in Cd. Juarez years ago. Cost me $20 to get my CDL back, lol!
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There's also a town here that has some Corvette Police cars that they got the same way... -
And even if what you are saying is true, they could still sell the cars and buy cars to suit their needs for half the price. -
The two State Department of Highways employees
working behind the scenes and inside the legislative halls
were O.W. Whitey Merrell and Harry Neal. Merrell
would, in 1931, become director of the highway department
and Neal the traffic bureau director.
Neal took responsibility for badge design. He assigned
the task to Mr. Joseph Goldberg, an engineer in Neals
Safety Department. The Flying Wheel badge design,
partially inspired by a study of others, originally was Goldbergs
idea. What was important was to think up a simpledesign that would fit conveniently on a shoulder patch andsignify every thing pertaining to the Patrol, Goldberg said
in a 1983 interview.
Goldbergs solution was to combine the wings of the
Roman god Mercury, to denote speed, with the wheel, torepresent traffic law enforcement. But Neals reaction tothe design was lukewarm. He kept asking me if those
were the wings of a duck or the wings of an eagle, Goldberg
said.
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