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This is my work car. I've had it for a couple weeks. We use it to sneak up on truck drivers and people doing 100+.

WOW! Nice to see taxpayer's money going to a really good use! While you're waiting for that speeder to go by I bet there's a decent chance that some where in a 25 mile radius that you could really be used.

Walk a beat!

Unfortunately I find that there are a lot of people who assume at face value that certain jobs could be better done elsewhere or in a different way.

I am sure Mr Madd that I can look at your occupation and find a dozen ways you can do your job better or in a different way.

Ignorance, lack of research and assumption are one's worst enemies.

1. These patrol cars were purchased for less than the cost of a regular patrol car.

2. They are special purpose and assigned to officers who are trained in commercial enforcement and inspection and use the vehicles for that purpose.

4. I am sure that within a 25 mile radius, my services could be better used elsewhere if it was my job to be a local Police Officer or Sheriff Deputy. Yes I could be out chasing robbers and bad check writers if , 20 years ago, I chose to be a "beat" cop.

5. There is a lot of proactive and reactive work I do. Sorry if it isn't standing in front of your house keeping burglars out...refer to #4. My job is on the road.

6. I don't dole out happiness to everyone. Unfortunately many ignorant, presumptive people think all we do is write tickets and eat doughnuts.

I showed this picture on this site because I wanted to share something I thought was cool. I have worked 20 years on this job picking up teenage brains from car wrecks. Holding traction on a badly disfigured body for 2 hours while firemen tried to extracate a victim from a piece of twisted Detroit metal. Knocking on a door at 3AM to tell a wife or mother that loved one is not coming home. Living every working moment to keep my wife and kids from having that same message delivered to them.

After 20 years of dedication: Never serving time off on a suspension, never having a citizen complain against me. Never having my career scrutinized by a Grand Jury. Working every shift, every day, rain or shine. My reward is to get to drive the fast, cool (be it extremely uncomfortable) car for a few months.

I just enjoy sharing a fun moment with my cigar smoking friends here. Not to have my career scrutinized by someone who probably deserves more attention from law enforcement than respect.

I stand by my statement.

Typical.

I'm sure you'll be taking it out on some motorist too!

Can I have a ride? I have My "E" ticket in my hand! Hehehe!
Happy Holidays to You & the rest of the "CHP"

Mag

Marla, there you go talking about your "6"!!! Couldn't pass the reference to tail!!! LOL

Charlie:):):):)

I know what you drive!! Hehe. Naw...you get a break from me anytime. I'm easy that way. Doesn't make the boss happy though.

As for defending my posts. I usually regret responding to pointless idiot comments right after I hit the "post" button. After reading SteveS "Newbie" thread in the Cigar Forum, I'll attempt to modify my responses.

That way it won't accomodate those who's only purpose to post is to cause a disturbance.

I carry mine too X.
I've had that thing up to 120 to catch a couple cars doing 105 on I-5. even at 120, it doesn't feel like it is going that fast. Really sticks to the road.

The gas pedal was only 1/4 down and a lot of RPM's left on the tachometer.

It was tested at our academy in a closed course at 165. That was not the absolute top end, they just ran out of course to go faster.

It is the aluminum block and aluminum head 350 CI. It is the R4C Camaro without a governing or performance limiting chip.

I would like to retire without having a medical disability. I don't think there's a time or place to legally find out the top end in this car without jeapordizing myself or someone else. Nonetheless, this thing is a pretty impressive performer.

Very niiiice!
Traffic is only one part of the job....For nearly every state police organization (which primarily patrols the highways and handles numerous crashes (some of which are horrendous with lots of bodily fluids and body parts strewn about), one of the main functions is traffic....Excessive speed (among other factors) does cause crashes...Not many domestic disturbances (although some) and burglaries occur on the highways. Traffic selective enforcement is a legitimate part of police work, whether we like it or not...Belittling Raydar for doing a part of his job is pretty rude IMHO...I think it's a cool picture...Gotta be better than the Crown Vic (POS) I drive...At least it's not a Ford..LOL

I cant see the girl... !

He,he..

Nice patrol..

Think the wheels are alittle much though !

What girl?

Charlie

CulleyJC52, boy, you got me remenising about my 1st Muscle Car. A 1970 Mustang "Mach 1". 4 Barrel 351 Cleveland, Shaker Factory Scoop with "real" Ram Air. It was a beauti & Fast. Those were the "good old days". You could work on anything yourself on those cars.

Mag

Well maybe not the pot growers cause I happen to think that should be legal FPC anyways :0)

First of all it is a nice car.Second of all I agree with Drmaddvibe,I think it's overkill,you say it's money well spent as a specified purpose vehicle.I say you don't need $2000 rims on any patrol car unless that money comes out of your own pocket.Also, you don't need that car to chase freakin truck drivers.

Rayder don't get me wrong here but do you really think an officer posted at an intersectin for 2-3 hrs each day at rush hour to catch a couple of guys running yellow from a left hand turn lane(they call it red) lights is money well spent? Yes I was one of the guys he decided to pull over.But I did not blantently run a red light,wich is what he said I did.Hell I wasn't even the last car through the intersection.Then he began a 20-30 minute lecture/sermon.I finally had to stop him and say look officer I aint in the mood for a sermon right now,I've got other sh*t on my mind,either write me the ticket or let me go...:0)He wrote the ticket but it was better than sitting there being lectured to!

CJ is the one on this thread who cracks me up the most.You seem pretty damn comfortable when the posters are in agreement with you,otherwise it's I wish these other people could find another forum to post on...LOL

Well IMNSHO it's the whiners and the nitpickers that are the cause of most of the problems.I'll have to go look again, but I'll finish typing first.Was it the Dr or was it you,CJ,that took the first "personal" jab?Hmmmmmmm?

sorry $2,000 rims

Sorry CJ.I just realized I had/have mistaken you for this CulleyJC52 person/wannabe...LOL

DrMaddVibe raises what is for me, an interesting viewpoint ... in my life, I've observed that ther is such a thing as a "typical cop" attitude ... I think it's fair to say, that more cops exhibit that attitude than the more noble, friend of the community, good-guy defender of the citizenry at large ...

Quite frankly, while I think that a guy of my age with my background and viewpoint SHOULD be a cop's best friend, I am leery of cops in general and do not feel that they are necessarily my friend, simply by being a cop ... more often than not, the opposite is true ...

BUT ... that stereotypical attitude does not apply to all cops by any means ... in their posts on the board and in my personal communiction with Rookie and Sgt Crossbones, for example, I don't see that attitude in anything they've ever said ... I regard those guys as friends ... I see my son making a conscious effort to avoid taking on the stereotypical personna ... and there are a handful of others I know who do likewise, guys who are decent folks, who DO have a good outlook, who DO work hard to do their jobs the right way and resist falling into the "typical cop' trap ...

Rayder1, in my observation, is clearly a "good-cop" ... not only have I seen his work here and exchanged personal notes, I've had the pleasure of being around him in person ... and Doc, while I really do think you've got a legitimate bone to pick with a hell of a lot of cops, I gotta tell you, Rayder isn't one of them ... if someone IS gonna stop you on the highway, I'd say you should hope it's him or a guy a lot like him ... that's MY viewpoint and I'm stickin' with it ...

A guy post a picture of his nice ride and JJ/DR has to try to make a dumb ass statement of you knows what? You insulted a person for no reason, your both idiots.

Enough said

Again SORRY ABOUT THAT CJ...LOL

Funny story but kind of a long.We moved in here about 4 years ago, just renting(I really need to buy a place but it just hasn't worked out yet).Mary had been looking around and I really didn't care because it was temporary,all I wanted was a connecting garage and a rather large patio and a good sized kitchen.This one lacks the kitchen but Mary likes it..SO

I show up early and I'm talking to the next door neighbor for 20-25 minutes before the landlord shows up.NICE GUY(the neighbor)! We go inside and I look the place over and I too like it except for the small kitchen,anyways I sign the lease and I'm standing out front saying goodbye to the LL and Mary.Not two minutes later the neighbor pulls out of his garage in his cruiser complete with police dog! WTF!!!! LOL...Looks like I aint gonna see any of my highschool buddies for a while...LOL

First 4th of July,I ask him if he's going down to the clubhouse for the fireworks display.No he says,I did the first couple of years we lived here and it's a good time but he's going down to the beach for a keg party.I said but it's againts the law to have a kegger on the beach.He says NO it's against the law for "you" to have a keg party on the beach.All the while smiling :0)....I hate cops...LOL present company and neighbors excluded!!!

JJ

Let me clear something up. I wasn't the one that posted that I drive a county car 100+ miles per hour. Hell, everytime I see a STATE COP he's parked in some median behind a hill, a tree and his badge waiting to pull over a speeder.

I wish I had a 100 bucks every time a cop blew by me like I'm standing still as I'm doing the speed limit with no lights on. I didn't say cops eat doughnuts or derogate anything from your pristine profession. The simple fact that you had to write an outline defending yourself and jumping me only proved one thing. You don't need the hot rod car!

Anyone else that wanted to dogpile, had better take a long look at what I wrote. Read it again. There's nothing between the lines there.

... looks like 'somebody' didn't get their jelly filled doughnut today ...


.. when do we start the "good cop" / "bad cop" routine?

Thank's for the supportive and amusing posts.
The wheels are nothing special. They are the stock aluminum wheels that come with any V-8 Camaro. Now our Public Affairs have 10 or so of these in black and white with polished aluminum rims.

The reality of this is, the car is useful but sometimes useless as a cop car. No room for stuff, let alone other people. Makes it hard to help a family of 4 off the freeway from a broken down car.

The purpose of this car is the same as our other specially marked patrol vehicles. To be low profile and reduce the ability of being spotted easily by truck drivers and high speed car drivers.

We have white Crown Vics, which I used to drive. Pickups (black and white). We ran out of Mustangs 4-5 years ago. Years ago we had blue and white, and brown and white cars..Chevy Caprice tuna boats.

It is just something different I wanted to post, not a political statement.

If the boss called and said that he wanted me to trade this for a, roomier and easier on the back, white Crown Vic, I would probably go with the Ford. 9 hours a day I prefer a more comfortable "office".

CHP isn't the only department with these. I found a lot of sites showing these cars all across the country. Coming soon to a freeway near you!

Maybe I'll post a picture of the inside...to show how stuff is squezed in.

What would happen if, when you asked to see my drivers licese, I showed it to you with an Opus X laying across it?

And y'all thought *I* was the one with PMS!?

P(rostrated) M(an) S(yndrome)

or

P(enisius) M(alady) S(aggith)

HAhahahahah!

That's right Vroom-Vroom! If you gotta be the one to chase us down, you might as well have an equalizer!

You go Raydar!

It's not always is an EMERGENCY!!!!(come on)

That's why hundreds of "INNOCENT" people are "KILLED" due to non-emergency pursuits...

Holier than thou COPS piss me off.

Now, go off and break the LAW and speed around on so called "EMERGENCY" calls on "OUR" tax dollars.

You are not a privately paid contractor, soooo, I can complain as MUCH I want.

Re-read the POSTS title (tough Job?).

Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, GOOO

POOF