The future of police vehicles?

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  1. Mike
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    This is an actual cop in some town in Wisconsin, blew my mind...
     
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    Yup they have used that as pace car for many events if that is the same one....thought it was Illinois though...town starts with an I? Sorry for the limited info, just seen it before on nasioc in the Midwest section
     
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    No, it's just someone that bought a light bar and has a large budget for graphics.
     
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    Ok, that makes more sense. I know police departments aren't going to be buying fleets of late model Subarus as squad cars.
     
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    It was at the MWSOC shoot out, in 2011.
    damnit, that's a different one
     
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    oh well i'm late on this apparently that article was from last july. but i don't know if its as cool as the zo6 they showed on top gear from north carolina(yet less practical)
     
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    Found it!
     
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    There's some department in washington that uses LGT's. Not gimmick or donated LGT's, they actually purchase them.
     
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    Imagine Derek Poundstone off duty, responding to a call in his viper. Talk about a crime deterrent.

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    Ridiculous...
     
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    like this? http://imgur.com/a/UILnf
     
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    That should even out the playing field, on top of that those counties that do come up to the BIR EVOC school's get first hand training on how to catch modified Imports around the track. ;)
     
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    They use confiscated cars as undercovers. Lots of departments do that. Cottage Grove confiscated a silver Dodge Durango a few years back. They put the low profile lights throughout and use it as an undercover.
     
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    Right lets be honest here get some of us Subi owners on a back road and what happens?
     
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    You hit a gravel patch and go into a ditch.
     
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    truth, you know us with the fat sways and coilovers do well in the dirt.
     
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    The one I'm thinking of actually researched, spec'd and purchased LGT's.

    I've always hated the idea of using confiscated cars as unmarked cruisers making traffic stops. It's one thing if it's actual undercover work, but pulling over the general public in a hoopty is ridiculous. Impersonating law enforcement happens. Trying to pull me over in a drug dealer's car is going to make me seriously question if a drug dealer is trying to "pull me over" and I'm going to have make some split decisions that aren't really fair to force me into.
     
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    I believe that's the one. There was a story about it posted on legacygt.com.
     
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    I've been on enough Subaru cruises in my day to know exactly how the "backroad getaway" pans out. I've put out grass fires in a ditch.
     
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    Kitsap County Sheriffs have it. It's a 2006 unmarked LGT. They have just the one.
     
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    That sounds familiar, probably the one I'm thinking of. I didn't realize they only did a single unit.
     
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    The irony of getting pulled over by another Subaru though...

    also found this gem
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    Sweet that would be fun, let me just say we do have a few Police Officers on our staff with motorsport background. I won't tell you which counties but trust me these boys can drive, pavement or gravel, winter or summer. ;)
     
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    well no one should be running from them anyway! ;)
     
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    huzzah! subies strike again
     
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    Indianapolis has at least 2 gt500s
     
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    Oh god, that's not even the half of it. I lived there through my highschool years. I think they take any new confiscated vehicle that they haven't already got one of as a police unmarked, and make it an unmarked. This was back in 97 too. I remember heading to chicago and as I was leaving town on I65, I saw 6 different cars, all police unmarked, with someone pulled over. My advice to anyone driving through Indiana, don't speed. You have NO IDEA who is or isn't a cop.
     
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    Who drives through indiana any damn way?
     
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    This poor fool did last Sept on the way to Mid-Ohio :(
     
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    It's got a State Official Use plate ;)

    Holy ****, they let him drive a patrol car? I figured they'd saddle him up and let another officer ride around on top of him.

    I'm guessing he enjoys the ones who resist arrest.
     
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    Kinda looks like he's "enjoying" that photo op.
     
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    That's not a police officer. It's a Budweiser Clydesdale trained to walk on two legs.
     
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    Woodbury has an older marked camaro.
     
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    In France they have a few WRX police vehicles back in 06-07
     
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    Poundstone...lol.
     
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    No you pound sand