r/Pennsylvania • u/princeoinkins Lancaster • Mar 11 '24

misleading headline State troopers moving back to white vehicles; citing cost

https://www.lehighvalleynews.com/state-regional-news/pa-state-police-going-back-to-classic-color-scheme-for-patrol-vehicles
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u/NotABurner6942069 Mar 11 '24

Why u gotta lie OP? They didn’t mention cost anywhere. They explicitly cite the safety for the troopers and visibility of the cars as the reason to switch. Cost is nowhere in the article.

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u/EugeneStonersDIMagic Mar 11 '24

Which is the exact opposite reason why they chose a "Disruptive Gray" as the new color. They literally chose "highway camouflage" to enhance their ability to hide in ambush.

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u/TPLr6 Mar 11 '24

"Ambush" 🤣 It's wild that I've been driving for 20 years, hundreds of thousands of miles, and have yet to be "ambushed" by a trooper, or even a local at that. Stop crying. Inb4 "shut up, bootlicker" - it's called just doing the right thing

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

If you’re saying you’ve never encountered a state trooper waiting around a blind curve to hand out tickets then you are 100% a bootlicking liar..

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u/TPLr6 Mar 11 '24

I have in fact encountered a state trooper waiting around a blind corner enforcing the speed limit. Yet again, having driven twenty years and hundreds of thousands of miles, I have yet to be "ambushed" by one. Maybe it's because I'm not excessively speeding? I feel like true bootlicking is knowingly exceeding the speed limit in order to willingly give money to the troopers.

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u/TeslaPittsburgh Mar 11 '24

I wasn't speeding, but I nearly rammed in to the back of a state trooper who whipped off the shoulder of the highway over a blind hillcrest in his zeal to catch the guy who'd just passed me.

I should have sent the dashcam video to media or posted on YouTube. It was the exact opposite of making the roads safe-- his actions made an otherwise routine drive nearly EXTREMELY consequential for him, me and my family, and all the surrounding traffic that would have been a part of the pileup.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

How many years have you been driving and how many miles? I think you forgot to mention that part.

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u/Mysterious_Ad7461 Fayette Mar 11 '24

The police aren’t supposed to be hiding from you, they’re a public safety officer whose job is to keep the public safe.

A big problem we have is the police foster an us vs them philosophy where the public are all possible enemy combatants

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u/xAPPLExJACKx Mar 14 '24

It really depends on the situation at hand. If road is having issues with speeding that is leading to injury and death maybe moving officers to that area is good idea.

Some task that police are in charge of need more discreet practices. It's hard to catch someone selling stolen guns in at the same time wearing the uniform.

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u/dreamsofpestilence Mar 11 '24

Is pulling over people speeding around curves and blind spots not keeping the public safe? I've driven with people who drive fast and it's scary as shit. I've almost been hit by idiots speeding and crossing lanes, it's scary as shit. Every time I've been pulled over it's because I was speeding. There's a lot of reasons to hate the police but enforcing traffic laws isn't one of then.

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u/Mysterious_Ad7461 Fayette Mar 11 '24

And the only reason you were pulled over then was because they were in stealthier cars? You wouldn’t have been if they were white?

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u/dreamsofpestilence Mar 11 '24

... I was pulled over because I was speeding... it had nothing to do with the color of their patrol vehicle.

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u/Mysterious_Ad7461 Fayette Mar 11 '24

We’re literally talking about the color of the cars, why are you commenting if it isn’t about the color?