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Old 11-25-2011, 03:34 AM
 
Location: Virginia-Shenandoah Valley
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Yep, Prince William is famous for that. It's how they got the Camaros, Corvette and a couple of rice rockets they use to catch kids with. You'd be surprised at how many people are shocked at getting pulled over by a 'Vette.
Prince William never had "rice rockets" and they didn't use the Vette for traffic. It was assigned to DARE for a long time but never assigned to traffic.
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Old 11-25-2011, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Post Falls
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I see it this way. We work hard every day. We sit in traffic for at least three hours of the day. Then we work for 8-10 hours. Then we give up a portion of our paychecks to taxes. So that they can write laws to give themselves raises and benefits and other things that we will never be able to give ourselves. I wonder who the fools really are? I think we are. We support them by working. And they for the most part look down on us the people paying their way. Paying their retirement. Paying for their medical insurance. Paying for pretty much every thing they own. We are the fools...
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Old 11-25-2011, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Virginia-Shenandoah Valley
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[quote=ejay;21853314]I see it this way. We work hard every day. We sit in traffic for at least three hours of the day. Then we work for 8-10 hours. Then we give up a portion of our paychecks to taxes. So that they can write laws to give themselves raises and benefits and other things that we will never be able to give ourselves. I wonder who the fools really are? I think we are. We support them by working. And they for the most part look down on us the people paying their way. Paying their retirement. Paying for their medical insurance. Paying for pretty much every thing they own. We are the fools...[/quote]

Should actually " I am the fool" Because you really are clueless. The police have no say in the matter on fines and the fines most certainly do not go back to the police. I also kept my medical insurance when I retired and I pay over $1200 a month for this privilege.
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Old 11-25-2011, 07:19 PM
 
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I see it this way. We work hard every day. We sit in traffic for at least three hours of the day. Then we work for 8-10 hours. Then we give up a portion of our paychecks to taxes. So that they can write laws to give themselves raises and benefits and other things that we will never be able to give ourselves. I wonder who the fools really are? I think we are. We support them by working. And they for the most part look down on us the people paying their way. Paying their retirement. Paying for their medical insurance. Paying for pretty much every thing they own. We are the fools...
Did you accidentally post to the wrong topic????? I can't imagine you are talking about the police. It sounds like you are talking about Congress. Although, people saying things like that about Congress is a pet peeve of mine. Most of Congress is already super rich (almost half are millionaires). People can say they shouldn't get paid until they fix this mess, but that won't make a difference. Their pay and health benefits, although large to most people, is just play money for them. Limiting their pay may make people feel good, but it would have almost zero effect on most of them.
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Old 11-26-2011, 09:08 PM
 
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I once saw this poster a long time ago of a Lamborghini Countach with California Highway Patrol markings and the cop was a big muscle bound blonde guy pulling over a hot blonde chick also in a Lamborghini; I thought it was real
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Old 11-28-2011, 11:03 AM
 
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Prince William never had "rice rockets" and they didn't use the Vette for traffic. It was assigned to DARE for a long time but never assigned to traffic.
Then you want to explain how I saw it pull over someone on Minnieville? A 'Vette is hard to miss and I'm pretty sure they only had the one.
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Old 11-28-2011, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Virginia-Shenandoah Valley
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Then you want to explain how I saw it pull over someone on Minnieville? A 'Vette is hard to miss and I'm pretty sure they only had the one.
It was assigned to DARE and other assignments other than traffic. The person driving was still a police officer so they couldn't ignore something that happened in front of them but they weren't assigned to traffic duties and very few traffic stops were made with the car.
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Old 11-29-2011, 09:10 AM
 
Location: Duluth, MN
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So that they can write laws to give themselves raises and benefits and other things that we will never be able to give ourselves.
Not sure when you checked last, but public employees aren't "giving themselves raises," don't have the power to, and haven't even gotten any for quite some time. We're not slated to even get a cost of living increase anytime soon.

We pay in one way or another for every benefit we get, usually by accepting a job with very slow salary progression and little or no promotion potential. In a booming economy, when the private sector is robust, no one complains about how we don't make as much as private sector counterparts, don't get bonuses for performance, etc. It's only when the economy sucks that people like you start complaining about how lucrative the public sector is and how much better we have it than everyone else.

Going back to the cost of police vehicles - even the standard, V-8 sedans are not cheap. Not when they have to be run 24/7. If a police department was buying an entire fleet of souped-up Mustangs, I'd be wondering. But buying a couple to keep up with speeders, some of whom drive some pretty fast cars and WILL try to outrun you is not a huge stretch.

Also, a lot of agencies will buy vehicles that will not be conspicuous in the areas where the people who get them will be working, and not always for speed enforcement. Kinda hard to do surveillance from a Caprice or a Ford Police Interceptor... I drive an unmarked pickup truck for that reason.
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Old 11-29-2011, 09:18 AM
 
Location: New-Dentist Colony
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It was assigned to DARE and other assignments other than traffic.
DARE to keep 65-year-old men off golf!

Seriously, a Corvette to appeal to kids? Maybe they should have used it for speed enforcement.
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Old 11-29-2011, 11:42 AM
 
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DARE to keep 65-year-old men off golf!

Seriously, a Corvette to appeal to kids? Maybe they should have used it for speed enforcement.
In the series of Transformers movies Bumblebee was a yellow Corvette. There lots of instances in children's toys where Corvettes are used directly or are the primary basis for the toy model.
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