TRhe rise of unmarked copper cars

DdBob

DdBob

Dogue in teh desert
Maybe it's just my city but it seems like within the last few months I have been noticing more and more unmarked, completly bare cop cars around town. Some are black and white and today I saw the first pure white. The only give away was the black floodlight on the drivers side and that usual shape of the Ford Crown Victoria and then the bloke behind the wheel.

Is this going on in your area too :confused:
 
They have been around for ages. CHP uses all white for their truck enforcement because truckers can see the white roofs of the normal black/white cars.

What bothered me was seeing a car that had passed me earlier on a 2 lane mountain road pulled over by an undercover silver Honda Civic by a guy in jeans and flannel shirt!
 
We have several in our area on a regular basis. There's a silver mustang with hidden interior police lights that pulls people over on the highway between my home and office every day. The main way you can tell it's not a regular GT is that the rear bumper has "PREDATOR" embossed into it instead of "mustang".
 
tiger roach said:
Remember: just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't really out to get you. :embarrassed:
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I think this is the whole basis behind the increase and in reality it's probably like only 10 cars that they constantly drive every shift in high profile areas :conspiracytheorist: because you know they got some doofus college edjumuncated guy on the payroll thinking he's Mr. Psychology. when in fact some blue collar nun collage grad such as meself knows they are just waging psych warfare...."scare the masses into thinking they are always being watched and do it on the cheap" *spits*

 
Here in the DC area (I'm in MD), they're all over the place. A large number of them are SUVs, usually Chevy Tahoes, and they are often seen pulling over panel vans and 3 axel trucks. I don't know if they're homeland or what. :shrug:
 
The push bars are the first thing you'll see if they have one. They are usually all white or all black.
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When you get closer, ours all have exempt license plates and light bars mounted behind the windshield and rear glass.
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They also use small black SUV's and stand near it with a handheld laser speed gun.
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Detectives usually run around in something like this:
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We had a 'swatting' incident at the next office building over from us a couple years ago. Unmarked Cop cars of all sorts pulled up. I see a lot of unmarked SUVs here - you can tell from the light bars inside.
 
Last Friday I decided to get pizza at a small town about 10 miles from me. As I was headed there and leaving my small town, I noticed a white Chevy SUV with those really flat 'stealth' cop lights (the lights that are very flat and look a bit like a storage rack of some sort) coming up fast behind me. He got up on my bumper at the stop sign where I turn to head to the small town with the pizza place and stayed there the whole way.

I set my cruise (Cruze? :tongue: ) control right at 55 mph, and about half-way to the pizza place someone behind both me and the county mounty decided 55 wasn't fast enough and passed us both. The guy hit his brakes pretty hard right before getting back over into our lane in front of me, I think he finally realized he was passing a cop car. Anyways, did the cop go after him? No, of course not. He stayed glued to my bumper the rest of the time, while the speeder went on his merry way.

I don't get that cops thinking…there's a guy who is clearly speeding…go after him! But noooooo, he stays glued to my bumper. I could've slammed on my brakes and he would've rear-ended me, that's how close he was driving to me.
 
Jbird said:
Last Friday I decided to get pizza at a small town about 10 miles from me. As I was headed there and leaving my small town, I noticed a white Chevy SUV with those really flat 'stealth' cop lights (the lights that are very flat and look a bit like a storage rack of some sort) coming up fast behind me. He got up on my bumper at the stop sign where I turn to head to the small town with the pizza place and stayed there the whole way.

I set my cruise (Cruze? :tongue: ) control right at 55 mph, and about half-way to the pizza place someone behind both me and the county mounty decided 55 wasn't fast enough and passed us both. The guy hit his brakes pretty hard right before getting back over into our lane in front of me, I think he finally realized he was passing a cop car. Anyways, did the cop go after him? No, of course not. He stayed glued to my bumper the rest of the time, while the speeder went on his merry way.

I don't get that cops thinking…there's a guy who is clearly speeding…go after him! But noooooo, he stays glued to my bumper. I could've slammed on my brakes and he would've rear-ended me, that's how close he was driving to me.
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You should have brake checked him. You could claim a dog ran in front of you and there was no way he could have seen it because he was following too close.
 
335clone said:
You should have brake checked him. You could claim a dog ran in front of you and there was no way he could have seen it because he was following too close.
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If I had an old beater, sure.

My car is 2 years old though, and low milage.
 
In the Chicago area I've seen cops driving all kinds of undercover cars.

There should be a law that all undercover police cars must be Ford Police Interceptors so we can identify them.
 
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mongooz said:
you can usually really tell by the 3 to 5 short antennas on the cars.
we've got lots of them.
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The higher in frequency they go (and they are) the smaller they have to be. Not as easy to spot on many newer undercover cars. They can look like hockey pucks or a small, round bump.
 
baimun said:
We have several in our area on a regular basis. There's a silver mustang with hidden interior police lights that pulls people over on the highway between my home and office every day. The main way you can tell it's not a regular GT is that the rear bumper has "PREDATOR" embossed into it instead of "mustang".
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I dunno if they still have them but the Maryland State Troopers used to have a few supercharged Mustangs from the early S197 years. They had somebody pulled over on the highway once while the wife and I were driving home and I heard the whistle of forced induction.
 
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