Today’s police cars are sleek Dodge chargers or Ford SUVs, fitted with blinding strobe lights.
That wasn’t always the case.
Yesterday’s police vehicles in the Miami area were big and bulky, and fitted with a single revolving light or a light bar. Some were even purple, like those in Miami Shores and Surfside.
Want to see the old police cars that once patrolled our roads?
Here’s a look from the Miami Herald archives:
MIAMI BEACH
A classic Miami Beach Police patrol car is driven down Ocean Drive during the annual Veterans Day parade in 2021.
SURFSIDE
Surfside police guard the entrance to the beach at 96th Street in 1994.
MIAMI-DADE
Officers at a investigate a 1990 robbery in Miami-Dade County.
Miami-Dade police cars assemble near Coral Reef Drive in the 1960s.
A Miami-Dade police car.
NORTH MIAMI BEACH
Police cars in North Miami Beach in 1981.
MIAMI
In the 1960s through the mid-1980s, Miami police cars were plain white with green letters.
In 1965, a Miami police car in position at the Dominican Consulate on Brickell Avenue in Miami.
An officer at a Miami police car in 1977.
Police cars line up in Miami in the 1980s.
A crime scene technician works around a car that was involved in a shooting by a Miami police officer in 1985.
HIALEAH
In 1980, a Hialeah police officer shows a city squad car with a sign for jobs available in English on one side and Spanish on the other.
An Hialeah police officer officer checks out a new Fort LTD patrol car in 1988.
MIAMI SPRINGS
A Miami Springs patrol car that was stole and dished out of a canal.
WEST MIAMI
In 1979, West Miami police cars and officers controlling traffic on Southwest Eighth Street ad 57th Avenue.
CORAL GABLES
In 1983, Coral Gables officers show off new and older city police cars.
MIAMI SHORES
A Miami Shores police officer shows off a new white car that replaced a fleet of purple ones in 1999.
MIRAMAR
A robotic dog drives a miniature Miramar police car next to a real one.
HOLLYWOOD
A Hollywood police car in the 1990s.
BROWARD SHERIFF
A Broward sheriff’s patrol car on the scene of an arson in 1999.
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