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david: San Francisco has the most busted looking police cars Hey now! I like the SFPD’s cars. They have the punch of a town ten times the size of San Francisco. A city the size of, say, New York. I was madly disappointed the first time I saw a NYPD cruiser. Just look at this insecure mess of an automobile: Cheap-looking racing stripes, bumbling typography, pointless mantras, its seal crammed into some ignoble taint between the door and the wheel well. I expected one of two things. One was sophistication. A crisp, chilly livery that casts a hush as it passes. And how slowly it passes, a prowler, a unknowable force about to strike. The other was rough-and-tumble. Like a ’70s cigarette ad or a ’60s pulp novel. Car seats that are beer-sticky and an “N.Y.P.D.” whose letters are flat-sided and brawling. Cars that smell of city vice. Cars that creep around with a hey-fuck-you-buddy grimace. The NYPD’s cars are not sophisticated and not rough-and-tumble. They are the saddest possible thing: dull, dim-witted, and in no way representative of their city, a great city, a city that is not dull or dim.

david:

San Francisco has the most busted looking police cars

Hey now!

I like the SFPD’s cars. They have the punch of a town ten times the size of San Francisco. A city the size of, say, New York.

I was madly disappointed the first time I saw a NYPD cruiser. Just look at this insecure mess of an automobile:

Cheap-looking racing stripes, bumbling typography, pointless mantras, its seal crammed into some ignoble taint between the door and the wheel well.

I expected one of two things. One was sophistication. A crisp, chilly livery that casts a hush as it passes. And how slowly it passes, a prowler, a unknowable force about to strike. The other was rough-and-tumble. Like a ’70s cigarette ad or a ’60s pulp novel. Car seats that are beer-sticky and an “N.Y.P.D.” whose letters are flat-sided and brawling. Cars that smell of city vice. Cars that creep around with a hey-fuck-you-buddy grimace.

The NYPD’s cars are not sophisticated and not rough-and-tumble. They are the saddest possible thing: dull, dim-witted, and in no way representative of their city, a great city, a city that is not dull or dim.