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.
Okay.
We have a blue Mustang with white racing stripes around here. Assholes.
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).
Have to do something to combat Waze especially on interstate highways
I was much happier when NYS Police were prohibited from pulling people over with unmarked vehicles for traffic violations.
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).
This is what the local police cruisers used to look like.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/a7/91/ab/a791ab801a8c86625315dff46d42f748.jpg)
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.
We used to call these jam sandwiches:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7281/8714994720_000519a119_b.jpg)
Quote from: Morris Minor on February 03, 2016, 02:08:52 PM
We used to call these jam sandwiches:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7281/8714994720_000519a119_b.jpg)
Oh, I love those SD1's.
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. :facepalm:
I still think it's bullshit that my local cop cars went from this:
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... which made it relatively obvious from a distance that they were cop cars; relative to THIS:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8430/7516163484_d4f4d84eeb_z.jpg)
... 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:
(https://ambulancevisibilityblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/the-ideal-battenburg-layout-for-police-sedans-and-wagons.jpg)