So apparently it's completely legal to have this badge on your car. Any reason why?

People seem to get away with movie car replicas, so it should be ok as long as you're not trying to pull anyone over and don't have blue lights or forward facing red lights.

I always wanted a Los Santos PD or Library City PD car

How about a black mustang? I think many people would back off.

There are unmarked cars without municipal plates

To be considering impersonating a police officer you have to either say you're a cop and that you're doing cop things or blue/red lights facing forward or on the side of the car.

Police Interceptor is the actual trim name of Ford police cars so that gives it extra legality I think.

Every single police car in Washington State patrol car has WSP in the plates or an XMT tag

what are you, European? Jesus Christ.

>a-a-am I allowed to do this, pretty pwease, sir??

In New Jersey there are unmarked cars with regular plates. I guess it varies from state to state

Not just the package, in this case that specific model is literally called the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, and the only time it DOESN'T have that badge is if whoever ordered added the Street Appearance Package- at extra cost- to make it look like a standard Crown Victoria.

Similarly, the new Taurus police car is literally just the "Ford Police Interceptor Sedan," and the Exploder is the Police Interceptor Utility.

This, the new cop Taurus and Exploders are called the Police Interceptor Sedan and Police Interceptor Utility respectively. Surprisingly, my oil capacity guide at walmart has specs for them, even though we're 99.9% most likely never going to work on one.

>explodermind

Also I know a guy who outfitted his Tahoe with one of these badges (stupid because it's exclusively a Ford thing) and a ton of lights. He was caught pulling people over and is currently getting buttfucked by the fed investigations.

Don't be a fucking retard OP.

Wrong.

It's probably just a surplus or a pretender.

I see unlucky bastards get pulled over by them all the time

I'm not pulling anyone over, adding any lights, or claiming I'm someone I'm not.

Adding the badge solely because people will think twice about tailing your shit.

that's illegal in alot of states.

Maybe drive faster?

No, it really won't.

They'll think "why does that ratty old Honda fucking Accord have a cockeyed Police Interceptor badge on it?"

You're what's called a whacker. You want to look like a cop just to intimidate other people on the road. Go fuck yourself.

>Adding the badge solely because people will think twice about tailing your shit.
If someone is close enough to read that badge in the first place, they probably aren't smart enough to actually read it.

It's because your commie state disguised them to look like normal Jersey plates.
In PA here, municipal plates are just straight blue but jersey cops still need municipal plates.

It's been happening a lot recently i've noticed, people buying chargers on steelies and surplus crown vics and re-adding the push bars and putting a CV radio in them.

>"I'm not [...] claiming I'm someone I'm not."
>literally wants to put a badge on his car that makes him look like a cop

Crown Vics aren't even police cars anymore for the most part around here. There's one unmarked (with Sheriff's plates) still being used, but most of the radar/lights have been removed. Everything is PI, PIU, Charger, and Tahoe.

>tfw when the newest Crown Vic is over 5 years old.

Thankfully you really only have to worry about the Chargers, because barely any departments use Crown Vics anymore.

I like vics as much as the next guy but holy fuck what is the end game to playing cop on the road. People go slow as fuck in front of you, and cops WILL harass you, rightfully so.

Lots of surplus P71 Crown Vics already have the push bars and spotlight attached; the department sees it as more trouble than it's worth to get them off especially as they aren't as distinct as a big fucking light bar on top or all the radio equipment in the interior that they do remove.

These too, lots of areas have almost entirely abandoned the Crown Victorias. Where I live even the smallest township (that still has a police force) uses Chargers; only a few cities have a couple CVs left in their fleet and rarely you'll see a state police CV, although they've primarily switched over to Tauruses and Explorers (while using the same reflective strips on the back as they applied to the P71s, which is funny to look at because it doesn't line up at ALL). Most people won't recognize the car anyway, they'll look for the lights on top or the paintjob, hence why the new hidden-lights and "stealth paintjob" cars are so effective- and people who DO recognize the CV are probably smart enough to see it's a decommissioned car with a civilian plate and an overweight neckbeard behind the wheel, driving with one hand as he furiously jerks off to his power fantasies.

You realize how many PI's are out there on the civvy market now? It's more likely people will just see you as a poser and drive even more dickishly around you.

I've seen some Taurus interceptors already auctioned off to the civvy market. Depending on who's driving it, it might hit that magic mileage mark and get sent to the auction house within 3 years.

Where do you guys live? I'm in Florida right now and a lot of the departments still have CVPI's in use. The sherrif's department in my town doesn't even have LED's on their cars. FDOT and FHP swapped straight over to the new stuff, though.

New York (non NYC).

People are driving around with fully specced American police cars in Germany.

>it's basically legal because they're not impersonating German police
>theoretically they'd have to cover up the lightbar but it's not an issue as long as they don't use it in traffic

The only people who would fall for that are idiots who don't know that most cops don't use standard license plates.