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faces few restrictions on when or how its officers can use unmarked police cars. And although departments are increasingly interested in employing the vehicles, there’s very little research on how effective they actually are.
“It gives the perception that the community is doing something that is not lawful,” Wright said. “Then it’s telling the police officers that they need to be hyper-vigilant when they’re in these unmarked cars as well, so I think on both ends it can be scary.” Indeed, Dic Donohue, a researcher at the RAND Center for Quality Policing, posited that without proper community outreach, the risk of such crimes could increase, as could the risk of people fleeing police officers out of fear that they are being chased by an impersonator.
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