7 Ways to tell if you see an undercover car in America.

This is inspired by a similar post. Except this one is for America, so here we GO!

Disclaimer! The cops are just doing their job, so any joke made in this is not meant to be taken seriously.

1. The spotlight.

This is the tell tale sign of an undercover cop car. No regular car has this. None, zip, zero, zilch, nada. You get the picture.

If you see a Crown Vic or even a Caprice with this then you know it’s being driven by a cop that thinks your to ignorant to observe their car. Well think again! Haha!

About 98% of the time you will see a car wit this and it Will be an undercover cop car, only 2% of the time it will be a decommissioned cop car. (Unless you live in a very ghetto area).

2. The Caprice.

Now this is less of the features of a undercover cop car, more so the car itself.

Now. In America. You can buy the caprice. But the chances of a you seeing a Caprice and it not being a cop car/undercover cop car is about 40% to 60% percent. (40 Being the lack of civilian Caprices).

But if your just a regular bystander, no chance.

3. The wheels.

Have you ever looked at the rims of a cop car? Or even an undercover cop car? They look basic.

This is another tell tale sign, because you could say “well there are cars with basic looking rims” but cop cars have a different look to them. You’ve probably never noticed, but every cop car has a basic looking rim. Even if it isn’t fully blacked out.

See what I mean?

They look very very basic, don’t they? Uninspiring even.

4. They look like they are the base trim level.

Lots of undercover cop cars look like their either the base line trim level or second to base. I mean just look at all the cars on this list. Other then the Caprice (which other then in Australia, doesn’t have a base trim level).

Now. In America, cops do travel alone. You may see a cop in a car with another cop in the same car. But it’s not uncommon to see a cop all by himself.

Another thing, unlike in Europe. Cops in the U.S do use custom number plates.

5. Their all (pretty much) just grey, white, silver, or black.

Every undercover cop car has a following trend when it comes to color. And like in the earlier post, their very clean.

They don’t have any graphics, they don’t even have any badges. (Not saying all debadged cars are undercover cop cars).

Their very clean. Very stealthy (if you know nothing about cars).

6. Bull Bars.

This, is the obvious sign of a cop car. 99% Of the time if a car has this it’s bound to be a cop.

That 1% is probably going to be someone trying to pay homage to the General Lee.

7. They have no registration on the number plate

Readers Comments

I’m going to quote what ///MGott said. Here it is.

///MGott

“If you get close you can see the license plate has no registration stickers and says exempt on it.”

Biohazardous

Um those are detectives cars undercover cars don’t have exempt plates and are impounded car so they could be anything.

Ok. I need to clear something up.

Now both of the readers comments contradict each other. So I did some research, and found out that it varies from station to station.

So it’s not guaranteed that the cops in your area will have “Exempt” on the plates.

If you think I’ve missed something then please comment down below and I’ll be sure to add it in if it hasn’t been addressed here already.