There are people who enjoy that. I suspect that if they do get pulled over, they might find out that real cops don't always care for imitation ones. Anyway, if that's your goal, what easier way than buying something at auction that already looks like a cop car?
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They do get sold (usually at auction) to civilians, with varying degrees of de-squadification, which sometimes seems to be limited to removing the light bar and the bigger antennas, and sorta-removing the insignia using a heat gun and a rattle can.
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Other times they go through the trickle-down economy to impoverished departments that can't afford new ones even at the highly favorable prices usually negotiated by the government. They doubtless get a chance to cream off the good ones that haven't been driven like you see on TV too much, haven't had too many perps puke in the back, etc.
Taxicab fleets are another big user of surplus copmobiles in some areas. I see lots of taxis that have the less controversial or harder to remove cop features, like the springy pushing-bar thing in front, the spotlight in the roof pillar, etc. still on; and of course they also have antennas. (Of course, they also have a taxi flag on the roof, and a repaint, in some stereotypically cabbish color, that appears to have been applied with a sprinkling can and a helicopter.)
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If it's a new car, he might have gotten in on a mbutt purchase of police-spec vehicles by befriending the right dealer. Mbutt purchase? Some states submit a cop-car order once a year, ambutting the buying power of as many agencies as they can talk into playing along. Sometimes this even all goes through one dealer, who accepts low unit profit in order to make easy money from an unfussy customer whose check will most likely be good.
A final possibility is that non-sworn and maybe even non-police-related government fleets in some places might get in on the same mbutt purchase as the police, or eagerly accept the opportunity to get in line for the better used cop cars.
Cheers, --Joe
