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New Mexico

getagrip_already

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2. It was likely seized through assett forfeiture....

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 07:44 PM

Dec 2019

A lot of fancy police vehicles are seizures. They usually sell them for cash for internal use, but sometimes they keep them.

Seizing property is profitable. Investigating murders or rapes is expensive.

Gotta kerp policing profitable.

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Albuquerque, NM has only one homicide detective [View all] left-of-center2012 Dec 2019 OP

IIRC, correctly, there's a lot of APD induced deaths. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2019 #1

It was likely seized through assett forfeiture.... getagrip_already Dec 2019 #2

It's a police squad car. left-of-center2012 Dec 2019 #3

so why couldn't it be a seized vehicle converted to a squad car? getagrip_already Dec 2019 #4

Indeed! left-of-center2012 Dec 2019 #5