1st Checker I've ever seen used as a cop car, but it makes sense, for the same reason they are good taxis, they would make good cop cars

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But Steve researched Checkers as cop cars, and found the following:

"New York City used Checkers as unmarked cars. Essentially they were set up as standard NYC taxicabs."

The following cities used Checker police cars:

Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chicago, Illinois
 Coburn, Virginia
 Exeter, New Hampshire
Key West, Florida
Mackinaw City, Michigan
 Medford, Massachusetts
Tallmadge, Ohio
 Terrell, Texas
Toronto, Ontario
Woodlake, CA

Possibly Covina, California

Burlington, Massachusetts (auxiliary police)

Upjohn Pharmaceutical and Timken Bearing had both ordered police package Checkers as security patrol cars.

The police package remained available all the way through the end of Checker production in 1982.

Thanks Steve! http://serviside.blogspot.com/

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/07/21/checkers-as-cop-cars/

It is "Distracted Driver Awareness Month" and cops are getting into action (what do they do the other 11 months a year?)

Chula Vista, a district of San Diego, on the South side of the city, has it's own police force, and yesterday they waited until 4pm for rush hour to begin, and then they began looking into vehicles for texting, distracted driving via holding phones up to ears, and seat belt violations.

In 6 hours, they had stopped 140 cars, wrote out tickets to 65 people driving while on the phone, 45 for texting while driving, and 18 for vehicle code violations like tinted windows and non functioning brake lights, and 2 people for drivers licenses expired.

This was the first of a weekly effort in the month of April, to take one day a week to focus on doing their job relative to the traffic section of the laws they are supposed to be paying attention to. What they do the other 48 weeks a year, well, that wasn't a question that the news dept of Fox 5 asked.

The California Office of Traffic Safety, the California Highway Patrol, local police departments, the county sheriff’s department and other law enforcement agencies planned to ramp up their efforts to prevent distracted driving throughout the month.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/04/03/cops-ticket-110-drivers-in-6-hours-for-using-cell-phones/

So, once May begins, we can expect to not see as many cops paying attention to this aspect of their job again. After all, they are allowed to call and text, and operate the police car laptop while driving.

Cops in the news today 1) shot an unarmed motorist suspected of an expired inspection sticker in the back as he lay on the ground, zonked by her tazer 2)New Jersey cop DWI kills 2, driving against traffic plowing into a semi, one was a cop, one was his friend

Pennsylvania police officer was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide after investigators concluded she shot an unarmed motorist in the back as he lay facedown after a traffic stop over an expired inspection sticker.

Authorities accused Hummelstown police Officer Lisa J. Mearkle of shooting 59-year-old David Kassick twice on Feb. 2 without legal justification.

Mearkle had attempted to pull over Kassick for expired inspection and emissions stickers before he sped away. She caught up to Kassick near his sister's home where he had been living for a short time.

He got out and ran before Mearkle incapacitated him with a stun gun, held in her left hand. He was on the ground when she shot him twice in the back with the gun in her right hand, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/pa-officer-charged-fatal-shooting-unarmed-motorist-165424205.html

The off-duty New Jersey police officer hired in 2008 who was behind the wheel was among four people in a car early Friday when he drove the wrong way on a Staten Island highway after a night at a New York strip club, crashing head-on into a tractor-trailer that killed another officer and a friend last week in New York City, he had previously had his driver's license suspended for driving under the influence, an official said Tuesday.

Officer Pedro Abad Jr., had his license suspended for seven months starting in October 2013, restored in March 2014, a judge found he refused to submit to a chemical test and was also driving under the influence, he had to use an ignition lock until September 2014.
http://news.yahoo.com/officer-behind-wheel-fatal-wrong-way-crash-had-185420604.html

He may not always travel in the HOV lane in Washington state, but when he does, the driver gets a $124 ticket

A Washington State Patrol trooper pulled over the driver yesterday afternoon on Intestate 5 near the City of Fife after spotting a prop which had the face of actor Jonathan Goldsmith in the passenger seat. Goldsmith plays "The Most Interesting Man in the World" for the beer brand of Dos Equis.

"The trooper and the driver had a good laugh about it but he was cited anyway... Our trooper give him a $124 ticket for violating HOV lane laws," said Gill.

In his 12 years of service with the state patrol, Gill has seen many bizarre violations. "We've seen people use duffel bags, mannequin heads...but we've given this guy an A for creativity," said Gill.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-violate-hov-lanebut/story?id=29881064&cid=fb_abcn_sf

Florida deputy Marcus Robinson, in 2007, made a name for himself when he went Grinch, but then wrote a senator some tickets.

http://www.b20vtec.com/forums/vehicle-traffic-laws/172343-sneaky-cops-florida.html 

Then he cited state Sen. Gary Siplin for refusing to obey traffic laws, and was not surprised to have the senator retaliate and threaten to have him fired. The sanator was also fighting unrelated felony conviction... not charges, conviction. Grand theft. A Florida elected official? Unheard of right? http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2007/08/whos-lying-gary.html

 The Florida Ethics Commission notified him that probable cause was found in the ethics complaint he filed, and found the Senator guilty of asserting his position as a state senator to bully a deputy sheriff into permitting him access to a stadium parking lot through a barricaded roadway. "The panel voted 5-0 to send a report to the Senate suggesting the Orlando Democrat be censured, publicly reprimanded and ordered to get continuing education about the state's ethics code for public officials."
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/marcus-robinson/featured/4

The senator appealed and got the case into a high enough court (5th district court of appeals) that they overthrew the ethics charge of corrupt public official charge. They know who not to piss off at that level.  http://caselaw.findlaw.com/fl-district-court-of-appeal/1557124.html

He may have been fired, as his Linked In profile  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/marc-robinson/44/765/984 shows that his jobs have been quite varied since 2007, as of Jan 2008 he was an instructor at a community college on criminal justice and then officiating weddings, to his present managers position of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

But when he was a deputy in Orange County Florida, he was on camera as the Grinch, taking away drivers licenses. http://www.wftv.com/news/news/grinch-hands-out-208-tickets-to-orange-county-spee/nJncj/

Skip to the 6:30 minute mark:

When cops put their minds to it, and make an effort, they can really have a remarkable effect on red light runners and speeding. They usually don't.

 Deputy Chuck Kochanowski conceals himself and a radar device inside a cardboard box beside University Boulevard south of the Central Florida Greeneway in Orange County, Fla. He clocked motorists' speeds, then radioed information on speeders to motorcycle deputies waiting to make the traffic stops. 

 West Palm Beach Police officer Terry Golden, a.k.a. "Officer Delicious," radios to other officers the description of a red light runner at Okeechobee Boulevard and Jog Road in West Palm Beach, Fla.

 West Palm Beach police officer David Oxley, posing as a homeless man, radios fellow officers information about drivers who ran red lights at the intersection of Congress Avenue and 45th Street. The officers participated in "Operation Can You Spare $183.50?," the amount of a ticket for running a red light/ The sting yielded 74 tickets in just 90 minutes as drivers continously ran red lights in every direction, sometimes four and five at a time. 

 Osceola County deputies Dominic Rodriguez (left) and Paul Spears target speeders on Osceola Parkway at Michigan Avenue while dressed as vagrants in Kissimmee, Fla. Spears would watch the traffic and tell Rodriguez the cars (How the police 'nab' or ticket drivers? ... v..picsINSIDE! - ClubSi) that violated red lights or were speeding and would record the tag number to alert other officers waiting down the road. 

 Sgt. David Lohr of the Seminole County Sheriff's Office operates a radar gun from a borrowed golf cart to catch speeders along Raymond Avenue near Rolling Hills Golf Course in Longwood, Fla. Motorists barely noticed Lohr as he blended in with the surroundings during a crackdown on speeding. In all, 27 tickets were issued. 

 Jimmy Haddock, right, a motorcycle officer with Kissimmee Police Department, runs the laser while Allen Womack, with the city's traffic operations, controls the bucket as police spot speeders and hand out tickets on Vine Street. Police handed out about 250 speeding tickets in two days in Kissimmee, Fla.

 Osceola County Deputies Jason Teems (left) and Ron Kelley dress as tourists and check for speeders on U.S. Highway 192 west of Interstate 4. The pair worked with other deputies and officers from Kissimmee, Fla. and St. Cloud, Fla. 

 Members of the St. Petersburg police volunteer patrol hold fake campaign signs as officer Bob Jones aims a radar gun at traffic in St. Petersburg.

 Leesburg Police Corporal Scott Sparkman (left) and Senior Officer John Sommersdorf dress as construction (How the police 'nab' or ticket drivers? ... v..picsINSIDE! - ClubSi) workers and clock drivers on U.S.-441 while Fruitland Park Sargeant Dennis Cutter waits to chase a speeder. The Leesburg Police Department and other agencies teamed up as part of national Work Zone Awareness Week.

 Dressed as Uncle Sam, Orange County Sherriff's Deputy Corporal Jerry Hagan spots and calls red-light runners on the corner of Hoeffner Ave. and Conway Road in Orlando. 

Orange County Sheriff's deputy Richard Lockman dons an elf suit as a part of the holiday season crackdown on unsafe driving 

Orange County Sheriff's deputy Richard Lockman, dressed in a St. Patrick's Day costume, uses a laser speed-measuring device to clock speeders in Orlando, Fla. In about an hour, Lockman and 10 other motorcycle deputies gave 92 citations for speeding and arrested one man for driving on a suspended license

All from http://www.b20vtec.com/forums/vehicle-traffic-laws/172343-sneaky-cops-florida.html  

I've mentioned before that I'm not rated G, not even PG, I just seldom let fly the rated R stuff right? Then this ought to come as no surprise

For all the corrupt NYPD out there. You know what I'm sayin? Yes you do. If anyone is curious what my issue is with NYPD: http://newsone.com/3073098/akai-gurley-nypd-kill-unarmed-man/

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two illegal immigrants hidden inside a speaker box located inside the trunk found at the Saritas border checkpoint by US Border Patrol

http://www.kveo.com/news/border-patrol-agents-rescue-illegal-immigrants-hidden-inside-vehicles-speaker-box

About 20 miles inside the USA, just South of Corpus Christi, 2 illegal aliens were detained at the Sarita checkpoint after they were found hidden inside a speaker box on Wednesday, March 18th at around 5 p.m.

U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered a woman driving a white vehicle approaching the inspection lane.

 A K-9 alerted agents to the trunk area of the car and the woman was referred to a secondary inspection where agents found two illegal immigrants hidden inside a speaker box located inside the trunk. Both reported feeling dizzy and had been inside the box for more than an hour and half.

LAPD officer busted smuggling a Mexican over the border by the xray machine... yeah... LAPD. Buncha winners right there

http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/03/16/lapd-officer-suspected-of-smuggling-person-across-us-mexico-border/

When I last posted about the dumbasses in LAPD, they were shooting up the wrong make, model, and color of truck with 2 unarmed innocent women inside.... instead of the male suspect they were looking for. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/09/lapd-shoot-unprovoked-at-3-innocent.html

Meanwhile, LAPD probational dumbass shoots an unarmed guy while not on duty, and hasn't shown up to work since http://ktla.com/2015/03/14/lapd-officer-sought-by-pomona-police-in-fatal-shooting-of-23-year-old-man/

Just how hard could it be for LAPD to find a union brother, a guy whom they already have fingerprints, background investigation, next of kin info, etc.?

Just another day in paradise with corrupt union members of the LAPD. Doesn't anyone with a brain ever get past the screening process?

NOW I know why cops have license plates that state they are California Exempt.. . the rules don't apply to them

because one sign didn't work, they added two more. Cops don't care. It's a Costco Pizza emergency apparently. And no where on the cop car does it say "protect and serve"

Washington, D.C., 1919. "Franklin Motor Car Co. police van."

Found on http://www.shorpy.com/