why do the police here have such fancy rides?

[csgray]

It was recently proposed to go to a publicly owned fleet of vehicles, the local police were overwhelmingly against it and the union fought tooth and nail against that proposal. As I recall, a compromise of a gradual switch over to more if not all publicly owned vehicles was worked out. If it didn't benefit the officers enough to make it worth it for their "brand new vehicle" to be retro-fitted they wouldn't have fought it. When I got a speeding ticket the officer was driving a very low slung bright red muscle car, when I asked him how he answered calls in places like the back of Hawaiian Acres and Orchidland he responded that he did everything he could to avoid those calls.

Carol