Crime & Safety

Photo Flashback: Piermont Police

Squad cars looked a bit different half-a-century ago

The flashing bar of lights atop police cruisers (the ones that initiate that brief, instinctual feeling of dread if viewed via rear view mirror) haven't always been there. At least in Piermont.

Here's a photo—courtesy of Piermont's chief of police Michael O'Shea—of a local cruiser in the 1950s. Different style, but same purpose.


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