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You must be living in Brigadoon or you live in a jurisdiction driving very old cop cars. Ford hasn't made the police Crown Vic in almost a decade, every force i
by yborg 6y ago
You must be living in Brigadoon or you live in a jurisdiction driving very old cop cars. Ford hasn't made the police Crown Vic in almost a decade, every force in metro Chicago now drives around in midsize SUVs. I don't see military style uniforms anywhere, but the Taser is now standard equipment in most departments so cops all sport those along with their service weapon.
My municipality got M16s from this Pentagon program some years ago, and at least some of the officers were actually pissed because it replaced the shotgun they used to carry and which was actually useful because it could load breaching shells to blow open doors, which was its most common use.
- rayiner 6y agoI live in Anne Arundel county MD, an hour outside DC. I’ve never seen police with military gear around here. They drive Ford explorers, but otherwise have a standard uniform and a sidearm.
- mjfl 6y agoah yes, the Taser, a famous weapon of war
- tptacek 6y agoI see police in military uniforms in downtown Chicago all the time.
- kasey_junk 6y agoGot pulled over by a cop wearing an upside down “thin blue line” flag in Willow Springs. He was wearing a plate carrier and rocking an m4 for the traffic stop in the forest preserve.
- tptacek 6y agoOh, that's a thing I've noticed a lot lately in Cook County --- squad SUVs with the silhouette of a tactical rifle behind the front cabin. I think they might be standard issue now? By military uniforms, I mean, like, fatigues? Drab green, no colors. CPD insignia.