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New Mexico

getagrip_already

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4. so why couldn't it be a seized vehicle converted to a squad car?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 09:15 PM

Dec 2019

I don't get the conflict.

They use a lot of seized vehicles for undercover work, unmarked cars, and even squad cars for senior staff (captains cars).

Maybe they thought it would be funny to convert one.

Why would they buy one that way?

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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