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<blockquote data-quote="OK Corgi Rancher" data-source="post: 4115293" data-attributes="member: 45773">I drove an unmarked, maroon, 96 Caprice for a couple of years in the late 90s.&nbsp; Of course it had the blacked out wheels and spotlights so if you didn&#039;t have your head up your a55, you&#039;d know it was a cruiser.I loved driving that car.&nbsp; That was back when police cars were big and bad.&nbsp; I hated it when Chevy discontinued that car and we went to Crown Vics.Situational compliance isn&#039;t quite so easy when you don&#039;t know the po-po is watching you.&nbsp; &quot;I stopped you for speeding and weaving in and out of traffic and generally driving like a *******.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Oh...&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know you were a cop.&quot;&nbsp; Like that should matter.And I worked for the county so the &quot;revenue&quot; went into the state general fund.&nbsp; The county got very little.&nbsp; So there was no incentive for us to write tickets other than traffic enforcement...which contributed to the safety of the public.&nbsp; So that &quot;revenue&quot; argument doesn&#039;t really hold water outside of a municipality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OK Corgi Rancher, post: 4115293, member: 45773"] I drove an unmarked, maroon, 96 Caprice for a couple of years in the late 90s. Of course it had the blacked out wheels and spotlights so if you didn't have your head up your a55, you'd know it was a cruiser. I loved driving that car. That was back when police cars were big and bad. I hated it when Chevy discontinued that car and we went to Crown Vics. Situational compliance isn't quite so easy when you don't know the po-po is watching you. "I stopped you for speeding and weaving in and out of traffic and generally driving like a *******." "Oh... I didn't know you were a cop." Like that should matter. And I worked for the county so the "revenue" went into the state general fund. The county got very little. So there was no incentive for us to write tickets other than traffic enforcement...which contributed to the safety of the public. So that "revenue" argument doesn't really hold water outside of a municipality. [/QUOTE]

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