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Unless you have a fetish for Crown Vics there were better ways to spend your money, plus they are awful on gas.
Anyone here bought a retired police Crown Victoria ?
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Mac Casper
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Basically when I'm look for cars there's different specific models that I'm attracted and begin to go after those models specifically - the way I see it the Crown Vic is a fleet car but so prevalent in our society that it could be the car of our generation, it is synonymous with various connotations
Bet most people have ridden in one before
I had one arresttee pee in the car seat and another one spit out tons of mucus and saliva on the car after getting OC'ed in the face. This was a non-retired Crown Vic, but it was going to get handed off at some point. You never know what happened in a police vehicle. Some get babied, as in, higher ranking officers, like lieutenants and above, drive it around but don't transport arrestees or get involved in car chases.
There is zero kevlar in cop cars..Bought me an 09 for $1200, 185,000 miles but it has kevlar in the doors
They get regularly maintained, unlike privately owned cars where you don't necessarily know the service history. I regularly brought my assigned car to the depot to get regular maintenance. I'm an ex-cop so that's that.It needs fresh paint, that'll have me in a rental for 3 days
Needs tint . . going to be getting the best tint on the market - 3m Crystalline . . lifetime warranty and it's better than regular tint . . changes the way the interior of the car feels vs. the sun rather than just changing the look - going 100 percent in the back and 70 percent in the front
Then I've just purchased a Kenwood stereo with Garmin built in . . no more fuddling with my GPS while driving. Could've got the Kenwood with Apple carplay for a bit cheaper but I learned that it's basically just a safety feature for your iPhone and it makes your screen blank while plugged in . . Wally don't mess with no safety features- also putting in 4 Kenwood speakers
Also got a center console with two locking compartments, a back-up camera installed and an alarm with keyless entry
After I get the paint done I will be putting a safe in the trunk to store valuables
All of this and I still haven't cracked $4k . . those 185k miles are high tho . . may be looking at a new transmission soon. The brakes feel good but when they go I will be getting carbon brakes and having them installed somewhere rather than getting whatever cheapo brakes they got on hand
I want to keep the rims low key, right now it just has the stock wheel well which has some premature rusting going on so I will have to replace those. What do you guys think? I want 17 inch black rims or maybe just replace the wheel wells with stock ones. When I get the new tires I can have them balanced with a lifetime alignment then I can get insurance on the tires . . I'll be good for days brehs
The interiro isn't bad but it could use some touch-ups . . thinking of either getting some parts from a Lincoln TownCar to replace the seats or just having the seats re-upholstered with leather . . I have no idea how much that would be but my goal is to fill this car out with amenities and luxuries. Those Highway Patrol dudes probably pushed this thing hard for 160k of those miles so I want to treat this car well, like an abused animal or something that needs rehabilitation
share your recommendations brehs
OP is actually correct if his car has the Ballistic Door Panel option....has Kevlar along with other stuff...
Pontiac Performance - Crown Victoria P71 Ballistic Panels
It's expensive to maintain a fleet of police cars. Getting bulletproof panels is expensive because you multiply that number times the number of cars you have and it can get mega expensive. Cops already get bulletproof vests, and that's expensive so why double your costs?
Anyway, I would never buy a cop car. They are gas guzzlers. I'm talking under 16 MPG highway.
go in further detail breh plZ
Depends. For a state police department, the citizens of the state pay for it. For a county or city police department, the residents of that county or city pay for it.It's expensive, but you and I are paying for it, so you think they care?
Each police department has a budget. It's not a free for all, like you are assuming. Some cities with a bigger budget can afford more cops and more equipment for their cops.
I'll give you the down-low with the department I worked in, I worked for a medium sized department. All cop cars didn't even have a cage. We handcuffed suspects and they rode in the front seat. Again, no cages. That saved money. Second, the number of radar guns were limited. Not everyone had them, and for the ones who were trained and certified to use them, had to share them with other cops. So, that means I and others didn't pull over drivers for speeding. But, there are other things to pull people over for. You might think without a radar gun, things might get slow. But, a lot of people do other traffic violations, like going through stop signs without stopping, drive around in unregistered cars, DUI driving, etc,
Tazers, we had even less tazers per cop than radar guns per cop. Tazers cost multiple times more than a pistol. People think, just give every cop a tazer, without knowing the cost. Police-type tazer cost in the thousands, not hundreds like you see that are available to the general public.
Body cameras are also expensive. No one had body cams and no one had dash cams either. You can see the price of a gopro camera, so that's what it is like. They were moving in the direction of getting dash cams before I left. But cost of cameras was the first hurdle to overcome.Second was getting the money for the computer servers to store all the video-taped footage from the dash cams. You can't just tape stuff and delete it after a day.
The higher-ups were always looking for getting grants to afford extra stuff, not just equipment, but training.
Rifles and shotguns. We had limited numbers of AR-15s and shotguns. Same with tazers. High cost to buy, maintain and train. A low number of cops had shotguns and an even lower number had AR-15 rifles. When you see departments like NY or LA on the TV, it looks like every cop on the scene has a rifle in the active shooter situations. Then, the general public makes assumptions that all police departments are like that. That's like saying I see LeBron James in a game on TV, so I'll assume that all NBA teams have a player as good as LeBron on their team.
It was kind of a gamble that during any one shift, there's going to be at least one cop with a rifle or shotgun on duty in the county. You have three shifts, morning, evening and midnight. You had two platoons, A and B. When was one on, the other was off. In the off chance that no one had a rifle or shotgun and one was needed in an incident, then you had to make due with just pistols until SWAT dudes showed up.
There are checks and balances in city, county and state governments so that police budgets aren't through the roof. There's other stuff in the city/county/state budget like fire department, water/sewage, trash, schools, road maintenance, etc. Some poor/small towns and counties don't have the money for a police department and are dependent on state police to patrol the roads and handle 911 calls.
Mac Casper
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Should be getting it back with the new paint job tomorrow . . next step is tint
,. . also thinking sub
I've replaced four of the speakers . . I think they're might be two more speakers to replace. Gonna opt for an amp and a sub. Any advice on this?
Also needs rims because the Crown Victoria stock wheel have a premature rusting issue
. . next step is tint ,. . also thinking sub
I've replaced four of the speakers . . I think they're might be two more speakers to replace. Gonna opt for an amp and a sub. Any advice on this?
Also needs rims because the Crown Victoria stock wheel have a premature rusting issue
it's a cop magnet. Cats was buying them left n right in early 2000s and no one suspected a thing. It was almost a gimmick to see trap niccas riding a "police car". Then all the lil hot niccas was buying them and the cops picked up on it.
It triggers aggression from police because deep down they have a personal connection to that car. When they see 3-4 black heads enjoying the music, they become agitated.
Mac Casper
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From my understanding cops look at people riding in Crown Vics the same way military look at people who wear military uniforms and aren't really in the military
Yea except military cats don't have the authority to fukk up people's lives at any giving moment
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