Talk:Police impersonation

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Is anything known about the psychological make-up or motivation of non-criminal police impersonators?

They tend to be closested homosexuals that want to "search" more attractive men. 70.187.180.51 (talk) 21:41, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Using fake police lights to get through heavy traffic

There are numerous stories out there about people who are not officers acquiring and using police lights either mounted on their unmarked car, or a temporary light that they place on the cartop, sometimes with an accompanying siren, just in order to get through heavy traffic they would ordinarily have to wait for or drive very slowly through. I'm tired of fixing articles and/or inserting new information into them only to get them reverted by some ignorant bot or user not paying close enough attention for some silly reason that usually doesn't even apply, so I'm going to leave it to one of you geniuses out there to confirm this information and to make the actual insertion. Thanks. Champaign (talk) 12:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

== User:Champaign could you be more specific on the law in the United States regarding the police lights and siren? Is it legal to have them mounted on the car and installed on say a used Crown Victoria police car if they are not used?

[impersonating a law enforcement officer, even online, is a crime.]

The above "impersonating a law enforcement officer, even online, is a crime." is a quote from Reddit's /r/ProtectAndServe warning pane, and this wikipedia article is google's I'm feeling lucky for that quote. So I thought I'd reference this issue here and cite a reference, but I didn't come up with anything and gave up. I'll leave this here in the off chance I pick it back up, or more likely someone else will do it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.101.187.193 (talk) 06:17, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Wording

Does anyone else think that the whole "False. In the US a badge alone is not proof. Every police agency also has a photo ID usually with department logo." thing is problematic wording? Personally I think it was written by Dwight Schrute.

Could someone word that better? I have no clue how I would. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.159.147.126 (talk) 06:29, 22 December 2016 (UTC)