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Posted by Intrinsic
Halton police car with "POLICE 878-5511" taxi-style light.
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I'll swear the guy inside has a turban on?
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Posted by cr400
I'll swear the guy inside has a turban on?
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NYPD has a few CVPIs as taxis for surveillance purposes and also apparently a limo too. It wouldn't surprise me if even the NYC Livery Commission would give them a medallion so they could pick up fares to be that deep undercover too.
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Posted by Agent Skelly
NYPD has a few CVPIs as taxis for surveillance purposes and also apparently a limo too. It wouldn't surprise me if even the NYC Livery Commission would give them a medallion so they could pick up fares to be that deep undercover too.
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over in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, around Boston, some of my less scrupulous friends have been nabbed racing by plain Mustangs, Honda Civics and Mitsubishi Eclipses. They instigate a race and then when the unsuspecting boob starts to race, on come the lights and you are busted. It's 50-50 how well the cases stand up in court, as well as how good your lawyer is.
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Isn't that entrapment?
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Posted by Samurai
over in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, around Boston, some of my less scrupulous friends have been nabbed racing by plain Mustangs, Honda Civics and Mitsubishi Eclipses. They instigate a race and then when the unsuspecting boob starts to race, on come the lights and you are busted. It's 50-50 how well the cases stand up in court, as well as how good your lawyer is.
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Yeah, Portland Police Bureau has several RED Mustangs for this purpose along with other cars.
and Yokes, its basically a sting operation and there's like a 90% chance these violators have a history of them racing anyways. But Samarui said, it depends on your lawyer.
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Homeland Security putting their time to good use.
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Posted by Intrinsic
Halton police car with "POLICE 878-5511" taxi-style light.
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The first time I went to Hamilton we all kept saying looks "cop car!" and then doing a double take and realizing it was a cab. Its about as annoying as the companies that copy other police forces designs. i think primary response is a really tacky rip off of the RCMP colors, down to the logo placement.
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Posted by Air 33
The first time I went to Hamilton we all kept saying looks "cop car!" and then doing a double take and realizing it was a cab. Its about as annoying as the companies that copy other police forces designs. i think primary response is a really tacky rip off of the RCMP colors, down to the logo placement.
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Taxi cabs are actually used police cars, hence the similarity right down to the holes for the push bumper in in the front and the antenna in the rear. Most cities sell off their police cars after two to three years due to the high usage they get.
True, many security companies do copy police car designs... maybe they always wanted to be a cop but never had the education. This security car even has the Vector lightbar... unfortunately one does not need to yield or pull over for yellow lights 
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Posted by yokes
Isn't that entrapment?
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That's what I say. But I don't "race" other cars. I set my cruise control at 80mph and flip in the far left lane. And then I own douche-bags who go <80 in the far left lane, who don't switch over, when a faster car comes up behind them. ("Let's see how many cars I can undertake" is my favorite mass pike game)
But as far as unmarked unusual cars speed trapping. I refuse to pull over for any unmarked un-American cop cars. He better have a Crown Victoria back him up before I get off the highway and hit the 101MPH mark at which point "it's too dangerous to continue chase". Then get back on the highway, and melt into traffic.
But they better send a cop in a crown victoria to pick me up when I get back to my house. Otherwise I'll trick that son of a bitch Civic into chasing me through my yard; where he will get stuck into 8 inches of mud.
"Oh I didn't think I had to pull over for the asshole who illegally put flashing lights on a civilian vehicle. I figured he used that illegal mod to get around traffic easier. Maybe if a cop wanted me to pull over for a "police vehicle" should have gotten a marked cop car, first". You can't cite me for a failure to stop for a "police vehicle" if you aren't driving a police vehicle.
The CT State Police use the unmarked black chargers around here. Though they are easier to spot from a distance than the neutral colored crown vics.
Also, the fastest police car I have heard of CTSP using are Dodge Magnums. Though I have yet to see one on the road.
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Posted by TheVicariousVadder
That's what I say. But I don't "race" other cars. I set my cruise control at 80mph and flip in the far left lane. And then I own douche-bags who go <80 in the far left lane, who don't switch over, when a faster car comes up behind them. ("Let's see how many cars I can undertake" is my favorite mass pike game)
But as far as unmarked unusual cars speed trapping. I refuse to pull over for any unmarked un-American cop cars. He better have a Crown Victoria back him up before I get off the highway and hit the 101MPH mark at which point "it's too dangerous to continue chase". Then get back on the highway, and melt into traffic.
But they better send a cop in a crown victoria to pick me up when I get back to my house. Otherwise I'll trick that son of a bitch Civic into chasing me through my yard; where he will get stuck into 8 inches of mud.
"Oh I didn't think I had to pull over for the asshole who illegally put flashing lights on a civilian vehicle. I figured he used that illegal mod to get around traffic easier. Maybe if a cop wanted me to pull over for a "police vehicle" should have gotten a marked cop car, first". You can't cite me for a failure to stop for a "police vehicle" if you aren't driving a police vehicle.
The CT State Police use the unmarked black chargers around here. Though they are easier to spot from a distance than the neutral colored crown vics.
Also, the fastest police car I have heard of CTSP using are Dodge Magnums. Though I have yet to see one on the road.
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Lewis NY-based State Troopers have a Dodge Charger as a cop car. He insists its faster than the Crown Victoria. I snidely remarked that it didn't matter because they were both slower than what I had. I even offered to take them out on NY 185 and prove the point. He politely declined.
Unmarked State Trooper cars are no longer allowed on the highway in an enforcement capacity, at least in my area of New York.
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Posted by Samurai
Lewis NY-based State Troopers have a Dodge Charger as a cop car. He insists its faster than the Crown Victoria. I snidely remarked that it didn't matter because they were both slower than what I had. I even offered to take them out on NY 185 and prove the point. He politely declined.
Unmarked State Trooper cars are no longer allowed on the highway in an enforcement capacity, at least in my area of New York.
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Yeah I heard they were trying to get a law passed in Mass that bans unmarked cars for traffic stops, as well.
I don't have a problem spotting the chargers, crown vics, or even the unmarked impalas (the impalas are gray, 100% unmarked (except for the ford logo) with a big THICK black antenna on the back) They are all distinctive cars.
Faster doesn't necessarily matter. After a certain speed (100MPH around here, I believe) they are supposed to back off because the risk to life is to great to continue the chase. There are several straight away around my area that have enough length to hit a buck twenty or more and then slow back down. (friends, not me.) And they are supposed to just let motorcycles go if the motorcycle takes off.
But if a cop in a civic or a corolla ever tried to pull me over. I wouldn't do it. I know my car can out-drive out-handle his. Of course he's going to come to my house and arrest me later. "Failure to stop for a police vehicle" But that's the thing, they aren't police vehicles. And the legality of them using them is more than questionable. I'd turn around and get an ACLU lawsuit on them.
Cops are supposed to be there to enforce the peace. Just the presence of a marked car set up on the side of the highway will drop a line of cars doing 65 to 40. Unmarked cars on the other-hand; that makes me think they're out to get people.
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Posted by Samurai
Unmarked State Trooper cars are no longer allowed on the highway in an enforcement capacity, at least in my area of New York.
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As far as I know, the only thing an unmarked car can do on a state road in NYS is call for a marked Trooper to make the stop.
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I've never known anyone that has outrun a radio. I have had to hide on a few occasions to let things simmer down a bit.
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Posted by cr400
I've never known anyone that has outrun a radio. I have had to hide on a few occasions to let things simmer down a bit.
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*raises hand*
But it was at 3:00AM, middle of August. Speed Limit is 30 or 35; usually the trend is about 50-60 average. And the cop didn't have my plates. I saw a car with a light rack follow me into a left turn and come up behind me real fast; I put the pedal to the floor and went 80-95mph on a backroad. Managed to get out his line of sight and my vehicle off the road and I hid out for a good 20 minutes before taking off. I have a friend goes a buck twenty on that road regularly; so my speed wasn't that impossible. The road is just laid out right for going fast: Long straight aways and big down hills with wide corners.
I know there is a cop who lived by there. He was probably going home and didn't feel like giving chase. But if he had caught up to me; he would have pulled me over.
Motorcycles that have flip down "plate guards" mod's on them are on of the few things that can fairly certainly get away.
There are cameras on the front of their car's now. Once they have your plate's you are done for.
But I'm not doing shit like that anymore. 50-60 max on roads I know. 65-80 on the highway. 90 if I need to pass someone on the pike.
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Posted by TheVicariousVadder
*raises hand*
But it was at 3:00AM, middle of August. Speed Limit is 30 or 35; usually the trend is about 50-60 average. And the cop didn't have my plates. I saw a car with a light rack follow me into a left turn and come up behind me real fast; I put the pedal to the floor and went 80-95mph on a backroad. Managed to get out his line of sight and my vehicle off the road and I hid out for a good 20 minutes before taking off. I have a friend goes a buck twenty on that road regularly; so my speed wasn't that impossible. The road is just laid out right for going fast: Long straight aways and big down hills with wide corners.
I know there is a cop who lived by there. He was probably going home and didn't feel like giving chase. But if he had caught up to me; he would have pulled me over.
Motorcycles that have flip down "plate guards" mod's on them are on of the few things that can fairly certainly get away.
There are cameras on the front of their car's now. Once they have your plate's you are done for.
But I'm not doing shit like that anymore. 50-60 max on roads I know. 65-80 on the highway. 90 if I need to pass someone on the pike.
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about a week after my friend got his 98 Neon R/T coupe (his first new car), we were between Exits 33 and 32 Southbound on Interstate 87... i got him to open it up and see what it had. I figured what the fuck, it was around 2am, no one around, remote stretch of interstate... if we wreck, we're not taking anyone with us... So he kicks the 2.0L DOHC wide open. We tagged 120-125 and kept it there. Where we did this is a long semi-straightaway that begins to climb through the pass by Poke-o-moonshine Mountain (no shit, look this up... that's it's name!) So just as we get just about 1/2way up the mountain, headlights heading northbound. I start with the old "What are the odds that;s a cop?" No sooner than the words came out of my big cartoon face, on come the cherries (NY runs red lights for police).
"OH FUCK!!!"
Lou gets back into it, drops into 4th and starts arunning... we got just over the crest of the hill when he kills the lights, slides the car through a U-turn and over the bank on the side of the road. And we sat there... The cop goes blistering past us Southbound when I notice that it's not a big fat Crown Vickie... no no no, sportsfans... we're facing down a Camaro... yeah, 300+hp of LS1 V8... and we're facing it down in a fucking Neon.
So Lou takes off out of where he had hid and starts heading for Exit 33, which sucks because there is only US 9 and NY 22 to choose from... US 9 is wide open with no place to hide and NY 22 is to curvy to get any real distance going. She he chooses 22 and ducks on to a side road. As we're getting off the ramp, i could see the trooper coming. I swear he was going well over 150 coming down the hill northbound. (that's 150 MPH, for our Canadian friends). So Lou spins the car around and we hear that big V8 coming up the hill... and goes right on by... hehehe. So Lou guns ous out on to 22 again and we hit the northway one more time, southbound. I'm sure at this point, the exasperated trooper has called for more funions to grab us, but we're on a lucky streak.
Long story short, we got away only to face Lou's dad, who was a corrections officer, former Baltimore (MD) city cop and air force air police... the man can smell bullshit like a fart in a car. So when we walked in, jazzed up on enough adrenaline to make a meth-head go "holy shit! calm down!", his dad knew it was us making all the fuss on the interstate... it was all over the scanner.
so... moral of the story?
there is no moral... this isn't that kind of place. Just another weird story from my pretty weird life.
(we've outrun cops in Cavaliers too, but you guys would never believe that story) :p
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You guys are lucky, sounds like you've got good open roads between burghs or Townships? We've got one solid city 80 miles in all directions, Except west of course. As I said in my prior, I've ditched and hid, but trying to outrun cops here is tough, You'll end up with 14 agencys, and 32 cars and, 10 copters after you. All of them hoping you'll end up in their town, on the bad side of their glock. Love the stories, I'll have to sit down and type out a few of my oldies.
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Posted by cr400
You guys are lucky, sounds like you've got good open roads between burghs or Townships? We've got one solid city 80 miles in all directions, Except west of course. As I said in my prior, I've ditched and hid, but trying to outrun cops here is tough, You'll end up with 14 agencys, and 32 cars and, 10 copters after you. All of them hoping you'll end up in their town, on the bad side of their glock. Love the stories, I'll have to sit down and type out a few of my oldies.
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on our interstate, after 11-12am, you have ONE state trooper for maybe 30 miles of interstate.
and ONE trooper for seven or eight hamlets.
no helicopters.
no sheriffs
no local rollers.
nothing.
the adirondacks are a big black hole in the northern part of New York.
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