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Originally Posted by btimbit
Fleet size, not total #'s, and NYPD and most departments in the Eastern US are misleading because they include stuff like parking enforcement, transit enforcement, and housing enforcement, within the police not separate departments all of which just use normal vehicles, not police models.
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I went looking for the fleet sizes and couldn't find the exact numbers, but I figured it's likely to correlate to the overall size of the departments. It's not as though LAPD don't have parking enforcement, transit enforcement, etc. too.
I don't doubt that the CPS are getting a better deal on the black cars now, and that's nominally one of the reasons why they switched the paint/decals, but the idea that Ford built the newer Taurus and Explorer police vehicles in black because "Ford's biggest customers, the biggest departments, had black vehicles" is a little misleading. In reality it's not the big departments that made the switch, it's the
smaller departments across the continent that have moved to black-and-white schemes. The little American PDs get a lot of their funding for their fleets from the US Department of Homeland Security, and it's
DHS who made the recommendation about 15 years ago that all US police departments across their country adopt a "unified look"...