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Hah! I too, have seen that V150 APC driving around Redmond and wondered why they have such a thing. I talked to an acquaintence, an engineer for the city of Red
by Wistar 13y ago
Hah! I too, have seen that V150 APC driving around Redmond and wondered why they have such a thing. I talked to an acquaintence, an engineer for the city of Redmond, and he told me that the tires are so fragile on hard surfaces that the little buttons they use in lane dividers can shred the tires, each of which is several thousand dollars and each of which have had to be replaced a few times.
- mikestew 13y agoA couple grand to put tires on the department's penisMobile, huh? sigh I think it's time to run for Redmond city council again. The question is: has any candidate for any city council ever won a seat after saying he'll cut the police department's budget? :-) Which might explain how police departments arrived at their current state to begin with.
- Wistar 13y agoYou should. The license plate cameras, the elaborately stealthy cars, the motorcycles that look as though they came from Tron, the smart car parking enforcement cars festooned with electronics... All of it seems a bit exquisite given what I perceive to be a low risk environment. But, then, I am just guessing and I do understand how much better and effective a job can be done with good equipment.
- Wistar 13y agoOops! I stand corrected. I just asked my city engineer acquaintance about the APC and I have it backwards. The APC destroyed the road buttons by crushing them just by driving over them especially when the vehicle turns. Apparently this button destruction kept happening repeatedly and was expensive to fix. He did say that the police and fire departments in Redmond have absolutely the best of everything and that their budgets are incredible.