The Changing Landscape of Florida

This is not necessarily New York but the vintage police car photo post was very interesting so I figured why just stop at New York City? Since it's very cold today here in NY today (13 degrees), I figured let me look for a warm climate and feature their police cars. Will it warm people up by seeing Florida state and local police vehicles and cars? Probably not but here goes anyway. It goes back to what the previous post said: Seeing how other states control their criminal activity or how it was controlled and how they transported their criminals after arrest. One of the photos though looks like something that Gillespie would have driven in the movie "Heat of the Night":


Florida State Police Car


Kissemmee Florida Police Patrol Vehicle 1971


Naples Florida Police Car

The Changing Landscape of New York City

I didn't notice how much New York City has changed and I set out to capture a little bit of this history but not all of it (just too much) but I figured I would start with a pretty interesting piece of history and that is with law enforcement in New
York City.

I was looking at New York City Police Department patrol cars or as they call them, RMP's for radio motor patrol and I set about to find photos of previous RMP's for the NYPD and the style of vehicle, color, make and model are very interesting over the years. From the curent white and blue to the blue and white to the old green and black RMPs of the 60's and 70's. It's also amazing in our day and age what equipment the NYPD used to thwart criminals and criminal activity in New York. Here goes:


1968 RMP (Green, Black & White)


1966 RMP (Green, Black & White)


1980's NY Housing Police Dept RMP (Red, Orange, White)


1970's Port Authority PD RMP


1990's NYPD Blue and White RMP


1990's NYPD Blue and White RMP


1990's NY Transit Police RMP


Its worth noting that the NY transit police and housing police were folded into the NYPD. Up Next: The changing skyline of New York City including Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx and Queens.