Police car paint schemes

[Morris Minor]

The Georgia State Patrol vehicles used to to be blue & silver. Very distinctive & and established part of their "look." Now they are silver and, more and more frequently dark gray, with lettering & insignia in  slightly different dark gray. Excellent camouflage.

When the technology arrives I'm guessing they'll go with invisibility cloaks.

[giant_mtb]

Okay.

[Eye of the Tiger]

We have a blue Mustang with white racing stripes around here. Assholes.

[GoCougs]

WA State Patrol has a plethora of the new Caprice in unmarked livery - white, silver, green (but also plenty that aren't). My local force has moved to 100% trucks - Tahoes (even one Hybrid - think it's the chief's) and Silverados - about half of which are unmarked (but all dark blue).

[veeman]

Have to do something to combat Waze especially on interstate highways

[MX793]

I was much happier when NYS Police were prohibited from pulling people over with unmarked vehicles for traffic violations.

[GoCougs]

IMO the best way to police traffic is by using unmarked cruisers moving with the flow of traffic. Much of the bad driving I see, esp. that indicating impaired driving which is by far the biggest danger on the roads, is hard/impossible to see from a stationary spot. I will say though I got popped by an unmarked cruiser some time ago - 91 in a 70 on a straight stretch of freeway a few miles long, bright and sunny and all (i.e., not legitimately dangerous IMO but whatevs).

[FoMoJo]

This is what the local police cruisers used to look like.



You could spot them from a mile away and when seen, everyone became a law-abiding driver.  I have an intense dislike of unmarked and so called ghost cop cars.

[Morris Minor]

We used to call these jam sandwiches:

[mzziaz]

We used to call these jam sandwiches:

Oh, I love those SD1's.

[Cookie Monster]

I think I've seen a couple of the grey Chargers around. The local PD here uses mostly black (with maybe a white door or something) Exploders. The problem is a lot of the taxi services and Uber use black Exploders too, so now I shit bricks every time I see a god damn black fucking Exploder, which is about every other minute.

[93JC]

I still think it's bullshit that my local cop cars went from this:



... which made it relatively obvious from a distance that they were cop cars; relative to THIS:



... which I'm thoroughly convinced they wanted for three reasons:
1) it "looks cooler"
2) "intimidation factor"
3) to make speed traps more difficult to spot


They should look like this: