That’s not to say there aren’t some departments somewhere in the United States that do use unmarked vehicles for their traffic units, but trying to apply that to the entire country is unfair. One citizen in Washington took video of himself stopping an officer for breaking this law.
Some states, like Washington, don’t even allow unmarked vehicles to be used on the streets for normal police duties. The vast majority of police cruisers in the United States are indeed marked correctly and easily identifiable as police cruisers, usually painted in black and white and with very large text on the sides, front, and back that give it away. It’s easy to take a picture of a good example and a picture of a bad example and slap some labels on them. Most police cruisers aren’t unmarked cruisers. The marked vehicle is the vehicle which will conduct the actual traffic stop for the unmarked officer, who should remain behind the marked vehicle whenever possible (obviously there are some exceptions, like when in a pursuit, where the unmarked cruiser might end up in front for some reason). In those jurisdictions that do forbid traffic stops like these, standard operating procedure tells the officer to call into dispatch and request a marked vehicle to assist. Even in jurisdictions that allow these kinds of traffic stops, motorists are still encouraged to not stop immediately, but instead call 911 to verify that the car behind them is indeed a police officer. That’s a huge safety concern because the person being stopped cannot accurately determine whether or not the vehicle attempting to stop them is a legitimate police officer or just someone with lights in their car. SOP often forbids traffic stops in unmarked vehicles.Ĭontrary to the image I referenced above of the UK officer conducting a traffic stop in their unmarked vehicle, the vast majority of departments in the United States and possibly elsewhere in the world explicitly forbid officers from conducting traffic stops in an unmarked vehicle.
The officer needs to conduct surveillance on a suspected criminal that requires sitting in their vehicle observing transactions, homes, or on-street activities (like following them to another location).They were created for a variety of other purposes that are all completely legitimate purposes that an officer would want to have an unmarked cruiser. These unmarked vehicles, while used for traffic monitoring in some places, were not created for traffic units. This fallacy of people thinking that police are only out to make money off of people or that they have quotas to fill is really old and really annoying.
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You can even view more images of this cruiser, including an image of that same officer and same vehicle conducting a traffic stop in the article where I got this image from: How To Spot One Of The Latest Unmarked Police Cars Unmarked vehicles are primarily used for other purposes. This doesn’t even require much detail to cover it, here’s proof: Right off the bat, the most balatantly obvious thing that makes this image just plain stupid is the fact that European police departments use unmarked police vehicles too. Americans are not alone in using unmarked vehicles. Well, some people don’t like hearing the truth, but considering how many people actually believe this nonsense, I’m going to blog about it instead.Įxpressing how completely false this image is takes a lot of detail, and I’m going to cover all of it. I tried to post a comment explaining some of the problems with the image and that people shouldn’t buy into it and the person who shared the image deleted it. I recently saw an advertisement pop up on my Facebook timeline comparing European and “American” police vehicles. Unmarked police cruisers are not a scam to catch you
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