Police Cars Research Paper

This secion will be on how police cars have changed, over the years. Who had the first ever motorized patrol car used in U.S. law enforcement? Akron Police Department claims this spot with the historic distinction, of their electric-powered patrol wagon produced in 1899. Sadly it did cach on. One big reason being, powered by electricity fielded on the streets of Akron and could only last it 30 miles before its battery needed to be recharged however it did travel at 18 mph. The buggy made by the Collins Buggy Company with the designe help by Frank Loomis. The cost? this buggy cost $2,400 (or about $ 65,000 today) at it's time. As for feachers, well the vehicle was equipped with electric lights, gongs for woring people, and a stretcher. The
Around 1909, the city of Detroit began testing modern police cars, with hopes to supplement bicycle units, and mounted units. The reason? there were more Offenders drinving cars. http://www.policemag.com/blog/vehicles/story/2010/05/story-of-the-first-modern-patrol-car.aspx Frank Croul was the Police Commissioner of Detroit, Michigan, from 1909 to 1913. Everyone knows this city as the heart of the American auto industry, with big names such as: Ford, Studebaker, Packard, and Cadillac. Croul saw that there was an ever-growning number of cars on the road, and city streets. This made him think about how useful they might have some use for the police of Detroit. Croul belived in this so much, that when he asked the city for money to buy one,and was turned away. He went out bought a Packard for the department, and used his own money, $ 5,000 of it (or $100,000 today). Improvements made to cars such as gasoline engines, made them more usful to police. In a few months, the city gave Croul his $5,000 back, and planed to buy six more cars. These cars were not only faster that horses, they were half the cost. By 1913, cars were being used by everyone, even the city dog
If they could install radios in police cars, they would become much more effective law-enforcement tools. However in the 1910s and early 1920s there wasn’t a good way to do this, some did not know if it was possible. The Automotive electric systems of that day, generated lots of static interference, but at the same time weren’t powerful enough to run a electricity add-on, like a radios. Also the radios themselves were very large, this was before microchips. Most still used vacuum tubes, that made them very fragile. However In 1921, a Detroit police officer named Kenneth Cox with help of an engineering student by the named of Robert Batts to tried to install a radio in a car. They ended up installing a radio, in the back seat of a Model T. After both of them woring on the projerct for six years, they did it. Their radio however, did have it's troubles like: working in tunnels, under bridges, and around tall buildings. Alsothe radio’s batteries, couldn’t fit in the car. To fix this issuse they installed it on the running boards of the Model T, it needed to be recharged every four hours, but