Why aren’t all police cars unmarked?

Question

Police would save money on painting cars right?

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Answer 1

Because it used to be that the public branch would determine the regulation for the police branch. Those days are long gone, but it’s absolutely not in the public’s interest for all police cars to be unmarked. There’s plenty of studies on it, but the short version is that you lose the deterrent effect entirely. So you just get more crime which would have literally been prevented by a paint job.