Just wanted to let you all know, your lights are too bright. I get it, it's so I can see you from 75 miles away and be ready to move over and slow down. Problem is, when I'm 75 feet away, I'm blinded, I'm dodging gawkers, dodging debris on the road, and frankly it's dangerous for you. Don't know if it's been brought up, just thought I'd let you all know.
Remember the old HT200's with drop in car charger? Lousy coverage but great impact weapon
There's a junkyard in Florence. SC
with a 1980 crown Vic wrecked. Up until last year it still had the flat top light/siren and a few other pieces. Friend in Charlotte is restoring a couple of old cruisers. One has a Dumont radio that is operating. Anyone remember a car with one of those?
You guys need to watch out for LED radiation damage to your eyes. Not a joke. Since LED lighting is still fairly new to the Military and Police the studies are not complete. There are already people losing their vision due to repeated LED radiation exposure (LED lighting exposure to the eye).
Interesting discussion, thanks for all the replies. I knew you guys could turn off the front or rear ones dependant on the situation, but I had no idea there were dimmer switches. As for the responses saying I need to slow down more, is reverse slow enough? I'm in Colorado, ranked 8th for the worst drivers in the nation (I'd say we're worse), and I've actually had to reverse on the interstate to let gawkers back into traffic that felt they needed to respond to an accident along with you folks. A flat tire can cause a 3 mile backup out here, believe me, I'm on the brakes way early if anything is going on.
I have unusually good night vision. When I see anyone on the side of the road, I slow down and move over, if possible (as a side note, then the speeding drivers, go between me and the 'da-man,' - the down side of following the law, is it makes it less safe).
I have often found, that I can't see the all-in-black 'Ossifer,' till I pass him/her, because the flashing red/blue lights are too bright. I often lower the sun shade this helps a lot.
The bottom line is your light are too bright.
I know you police want to be safe when pulling someone over , but blinding the crap out of someone with your lights and spotlight does not make someone feel like they are dealing with someone from their community working for public safety.
Putting the spotlight and takedown lights in the offenders mirrors and windows is, in fact, to prevent them from seeing anything. I couldn't care less how anyone feels about it. It written into our policy, actually.
Drunks are attracted to flashing lights... learned that way back in the academy. We stood away from the vehicle during a car stop or whenever the unit was stopped with lights on. We had one red flashing light pointed to the back of the unit that we would leave on during a stop. It was dept policy too.
Didn't know about a dimmer switch available these days. Sounds like a good idea.
I know you police want to be safe when pulling someone over , but blinding the crap out of someone with your lights and spotlight does not make someone feel like they are dealing with someone from their community working for public safety.
I know you police want to be safe when pulling someone over , but blinding the crap out of someone with your lights and spotlight does not make someone feel like they are dealing with someone from their community working for public safety.
My wife actually took the time to write a courteous supportive email to the local police chief about all the bright lights on patrol cars recently. We absolutely support law enforcement and officer safety, but the lights are often too bright and numerous. They've gone from being a good warning to a hazard IMHO. LED's are really great but let's not go overboard.
I know you police want to be safe when pulling someone over , but blinding the crap out of someone with your lights and spotlight does not make someone feel like they are dealing with someone from their community working for public safety.
I understand, however, I hope you can see that we have no idea who you are when we stop you. You could be mother Teresa, or Hannibal Lecter. Chances are you're not on either extreme, so neither is our response. We deal with drug dealers, violent repeat offenders, lots of folks bent on harming you or us. We deal with them so the chances of you doing so are lessened.
As opposed to walking up to a potential ambush with a firearm in our hands on every stop, a pretty good compromise is to use our lights to reduce your ability to see what we're doing, and to allow us a better chance to see what you're doing. I feel that is a pretty good compromise, and, if you're worried about it so much, may respectfully I suggest reducing the things that will get you stopped in the first place, i.e, breaking traffic laws.
I was doing the 2nd man per car thing one night, mentioned they had to be blinding at night to oncoming traffic, was there a dimmer for night use? "It's on the dimmer setting"...
Should I be wearing sunscreen at night? We don't wear hats. I think the LEDs are narrow spectrum and don't put out substantial UV from the blue ones... But if they do....
I know you police want to be safe when pulling someone over , but blinding the crap out of someone with your lights and spotlight does not make someone feel like they are dealing with someone from their community working for public safety.
That's the primary purpose of the lights. It's for our protection, not yours. So we can see into the car at night even with tinted windows and you're blinded to the point that you can't see us approaching to make ambushing us difficult.
Most people like you aren't a threat and don't require that but we have to be in a position to handle the worst case scenario when (not if) it occurs.
lightbar on the front headliner
6 LED modules on the pushbumper, 4 forward, 2 to the side, plus a traffic signal override strobe.
4 LED modules on each rocker panel
1 LED module under the side view mirror
1 sideways LED module mounted on the cage
1 headliner mounted rear bar
1 small deck mounted bar
The rear trunk lights have been re-purposed to flash as emergency lights.
I referenced that video in a 'discussion' we were having once about how it was advised to stop cars, if possible, "in well-lighted locations, such as parking lots".
Uh, no. Screw that. I want it to be coal-mine dark. I want to control/direct all the light, and use the darkness to my advantage.
Be like Bane.
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