New Car Photo by Boyd Loving
If you think the New Ridgewood Police Cars are Ugly you are not alone
June 4,2012
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, It seems like its was only a short while ago when tax payers were asked to fork over $650.00 per car for a new paint job for Ridgewood Police Vehicles. At the time the paint job was justified because we were told it gave the cars a so called “higher visibility” and a state wide uniform look .
Those who pointed out the cars looked fine as they were ,noted that the the cars were changed from from black and whites years before and the uniformity struck as a threat to home rule. These critics were quickly shouted down as being anti police .
So much to every one’s surprise in an age of doing more with less is a new more stylish update once again of Ridgewood Police Vehicles. To many it seems to run contrary to “zero based budget initiatives” we heard so much about during the recent campaign .
We are also still unclear as to how the color of the Police Vehicles effects the quality of service ? As for now we have seen the new patrol cars out and about and we are forced to agree with many of our readers ,they are just plain ugly .
Old car photo by Boyd Loving
I really don’t care what they look like. I am concerned only with response time.
I agree. Who cares what they look like. We put up with what the police officers look like, why would the cars be any different.
The reason people care about what the police cars look like is because, among other things, we pay for the markings. As long as we are paying for a dressed up police car, it might as well look good.
Besides, if we didn’t care what they looked like we would order white cars and stencil RPD on the doors. If we didn’t care what they looked like we would not wash them or repair them when they got into accidents only causing cosmetic damage.
Ignoring these maintenance items do not impact response time, so why wash or repair them?
Also the police cruiser is one of the physical representations of the town. As long as we are budgeting for marked police cars, they might as well present an attractive image.
As long as the police car can get on officer to me in a time of emergecy I don’t care what they look like. If the cops who have to drive the cars are happy with the design who am I to judge. Before I retired my business had a fleet of trucks which we changed paint jobs and logos on time after time over 35 years. Paint jobs and decals are a dime a dozen, just part of doing business.
who came up with that style ,some on was smoking some pot. but yes who cares anyway. at least they are on the road.
You can blame your village manager for those designs! He had the final decision and told the chief he wanted a “new look”. So….this is what ya get!!! way to go gabbert!!!
Really do not care how they look as long as the police respond. Maybe the next time around you can be in on the decision.
Ha.
All of you people who say “I don’t care how they look” wil change your tunes when a 10 year old, rusty, dented up police cruiser responds to a call.