How is this not bigger news?

  • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    There’s one in my town that is black. With black writing on it that says police. The only way to see the text is to see the difference in sheen between the paint and the writing.

    it should be very illegal

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, every time they get a new upgrade over here it’s even harder to detect. But it’s part of the uniform. Should stand out and be hard to replicate.

      Start calling 911 when you get pulled over to confirm it’s a real officer and really just make it a headache for him and they’ll go back to normal.

      “Hi I’m just calling to verify this unmarked pulling me over is a real officer” they will get the picture after a couple of thousand of those

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, cops call this ghost marking. They do it to skirt around the laws regarding marked vs unmarked vehicles. Unmarked vehicles have stricter requirements, so cops ghost mark their vehicles and say “look, they’re technically not unmarked, so they don’t have to follow all of those stricter rules.”

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        24 hours ago

        Then they’ll check your window tint with their expert window tint detector flashlight.