The Many Faces of Cop Cars

A couple of friends and I had a little run in with the law this weekend. I won’t go into detail about it but as we sat there in front of the cop car, which was a sweet looking Dodge Charger by the way, I got to thinking about how I never really see any articles these days about cop cars. Many of the new cars are actually nice, in appearance. Police are now given cars with more muscle and horsepower to really get them where they need to go, and fast. The one that stopped us was very similar to this:

A slim line of blue, red, and white lights at the top and a mean grill guard in the front. It had the paint scheme of the old school police cars but the sexy body lines of the new school makes and models. A 5.7-liter, 340-horsepower Hemi V-8 engine doesn’t really help our chances either.

The state of Indiana is also changing their police force appearance. About a couple of months ago, the state of Indiana issued new police cars to be released into the workforce. These were 18 brand new 2008 Ford Mustang GT’s to be driven by one trooper in each of the 18 different locations of police posts, around the state of Indiana. Indiana law also allowed for them to be different colors, not just black and white, so that they would blend in with normal traffic. You most likely wouldn’t even know it was a cop car until you see the specially hidden lights in the grill and dash areas of the car, flashing at you to pull over. The Mustangs also came equipped with the latest in police technology which included a touch screen computer system, a global positioning system (GPS), radar, etc. This was a move to really crack down on violators of traffic laws (i.e. speeding tickets, DUI’s, etc).

I found this video on YouTube which is just a compilation of many pictures of different police cars around the world. Obviously some of them aren’t real police cars but you can kind of get the idea:

So for all you people out there that think you can always get by the law, well you can’t. The police force is always updating its equipment with the latest and greatest technologies and changing the way they look and present themselves in public. Just be careful of what other cars might be doing or what they look like. The usual places for lights would be behind the grill or in front of the rearview mirror. As long as you know a general idea of what your local police car looks like, you should be fine.