I see private security companies using them so they will look "official".

There are a whole bunch of YouTube videos of people impersonating cops and getting arrested. It’s some type of serious mental illness thing.

I have an old crown Vic cop car. I bought it for the front clip for my 53 Mercury M100.

Nobody tailgates you when you drive an old cop car...

Many are old cop cars, taken out of service and sold at auction. Around here the old cop cars become taxi cabs.

Yep, bought by people use to riding in the back seat, so they already know what they are getting.

Dr. Phil wonders the same thing.

https://youtu.be/G4Q2I4PrLyo

If you see an Explorer with steel wheels and spotlights in the A-pillar, it’s almost certainly a retired PUI that was bought at auction or off a lot.

Years ago I was driving in the city somewhere and had some fool come up fast behind me in an old Crown Vic honking his horn and flashing his headlights (emergency lights and siren had been removed), trying (badly) to pretend to be a LEO. My job makes me very familiar with actual police vehicles so I ignored him.

I would buy one for a dirt cheap daily that i wouldn't mind to beat to crap on the roads out here

April 2020 a GDMF who had purchased an ex police cruiser had a friend (ex con) make up some RCMP decals, got together some uniform bits and went on a shooting rampage here in rural Nova Scotia. He killed 22 people, some who were walking along the road, others he pulled over.
RCMP constable Heidi Sorenson gave her life trying to stop him. An hour later he was shot to death by other RCMP members.
May he rot in hell.
I believe the RCMP no longer sends their retired units to auction.

Les

Back when I worked, there was a guy on my commute route that had an old crown Vic that looked like a police car. He had strategically placed a blue coffee mug on the center of the dash in the windshield. Jerk.

this was a wild ride. JFC.

^ Wow.

I saw the same thing late last week.
Old detective car, crown vic, with yellow construction lightbar mounted inside the vehicle up high on the windshield. Outside spotlight with the steelies and black grill.
Some middle aged meth head driving.
I shoulda takin pictures.

Well said Old E
 

Les, I'm glad you brought that up, what a horrific night that must have been for those poor people in Portapique. It's still hard to believe the horror that POS caused. Glad he didn't make it back to Dartmouth/Halifax.

Wanna-be’s but couldn’t cut it...

Around here, I see Crown Vics mostly in the 'hood. Some are painted black/white, but most have nice looking custom paint jobs

Mall cops gone bad on the next Maury Povich 😁

Byron's idea of rolling in style.... :D

You know ****** troll, you better consider yourself lucky that I didn't move to Portland in 2008, cause I would have given your cowardly ass to troll me in person instead behind a keyboard, then this bloated Elvis wannabe as you call me would have stomped your head into a state stain, if you show up at works reunion, the same thing will happen and, since like other Pelicans, I travel around the country and have friends to visit on the west coast, I will fix your trolling one and for all. So keep it up , keep trolling and find out what happens. :mad:

That is the whole state. Our counties don't have enough money for a fleet of dedicated cop cars, so after reaching a certain rank, cops can opt to drive subsidized cars. Those cars must meet requirements for power, space, and the ability to install a light bar. Nowdays, we mostly have subsidized SUVS, but have seen some Camrys.

I used to have a TRD sc'd 4Runner and I put on a fake antenna. Cops used to just wave me through.