Ford to continue producing, selling Police Interceptors despite being told to rethink relationship with police

Ford to continue producing, selling Police Interceptors despite being told to rethink relationship with police

The killing of George Floyd by policemen in the US has sparked great outrage and mobilised various anti-racism and anti-police brutality movements. In the wake of this, Ford employees have been inspired to rethink the company’s relationship with the police, and urged top executives to stop producing and selling police vehicles altogether.

According to Automotive News, Blue Oval bosses including CEO Jim Hackett wrote a letter of over 600 words to senior staff, saying “it’s not controversial that the Ford Police Interceptor helps officers do their job. The issues plaguing police credibility have nothing to do with the vehicles they’re driving.”

Hacket and executive chairman Bill Ford are supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement and believe that the police should operate with more transparency and accountability. However, Hacket added that first responders play an “extraordinarily important role in the vitality and safety of our society.”

Ford to continue producing, selling Police Interceptors despite being told to rethink relationship with police

“Our world wouldn’t function without the bravery and dedication of the good police officers who protect and serve,” Hackett wrote. Ford will continue to produce and sell Police Interceptor sedans and SUVs, which are souped-up versions of the Fusion and Explorer models.

Every year, the Interceptors account for a small sliver of the more than two million cars Ford sells in the US. However, the Blue Oval has long dominated that segment, and revealed that Interceptors make for almost two-thirds of US police vehicle sales.

The blacked-out SUV you see here is the 2020 Police Interceptor Utility, which is available with either a 3.0 litre EcoBoost, 3.3 litre direct-injection V6, or 3.3 litre hybrid powertrain. It’s also the only vehicle in the world that has been engineered to meet a 120 km/h rear-impact crash test.

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  • dream_125 on Jul 10, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    Of course Ford will continue producing police cars. As many of them were burned during the riots, there’s a huge market for new police cars in the US.

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  • DonkeyKong on Jul 10, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    Why should Ford rethink their relationship with the police? These BLM nutcases are turning America into a lawless left-wing hell-hole.

    Look at what happened when BLM had their own militias acting as “security forces” in the CHAZ zones, they even killed an innocent 8-year old black girl in Atlanta with their irresponsible shooting at vehicles, but you don’t see the BLM-supporting hypocrites commemorating Secoriea Turner.

    BLM and their Antifa cohorts are no different from ISIS with their oppression of local communities. The worst part of it is that they’re masquerading this oppression and fascism as “tolerance” and “woke” and dumb fools lap it up.

    Cops lives matter. Time to crack down on these criminals and thugs.

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    • Dredd on Jul 11, 2020 at 9:42 am

      Time for America to initiate the Judge system and clone me to take care of law an order.

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    • Pi Seng on Jul 11, 2020 at 5:26 pm

      “Why should Ford rethink their relationship with the police?”

      Because the police will be “defunded”?

      Shall Ford give them the patrol cars for free?

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    • Hantu Raya on Jul 11, 2020 at 7:33 pm

      Amen brother!

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    • Pi Seng on Jul 12, 2020 at 4:35 pm

      “These BLM nutcases are turning America into a lawless left-wing hell-hole.”

      Like the US did with Iraq? Then I don’t care.

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    • Really a Donkey, huh? on Jul 12, 2020 at 6:55 pm

      Never thought that you would fall for the Trump propaganda of protraying BLM as a left vs right culture war. The fact that you are classing BLM together with ISIS already shown you have no idea what you are talking about.

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      • Hantu Raya on Jul 13, 2020 at 2:45 pm

        And that’s all the liberal hive mind knows- “orange man bad”…
        Looks like we got another winner here, finished the Kool aide and went for seconds…
        Typical cultural marxist.

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        • Really a Donkey, huh? on Jul 13, 2020 at 7:41 pm

          Ironic that you mention hive mind and kool aide when it’s widely known the Republican conservatives are supporting Trump non-questioningly and Trump supporters drinking bleach to cure Covid after the orange man tweeted the effectiveness of drinking disinfectants. Seriously, you sounds like a trumptard the more you commented.

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          • Hantu Raya on Jul 15, 2020 at 12:34 pm

            Ahh… Did I hurt your feewings? Do you want to crawl into your safe space again with your pacifier?

            Meanwhile an Indiana mother was shot in the head dead, by BLM psychopath for saying all lives matter….

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  • Semi-Value (Member) on Jul 11, 2020 at 12:08 am

    yeap no police. the purge is coming.

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    • Hantu Raya on Jul 11, 2020 at 7:37 pm

      Really? Well, we know one side already has almost all of the guns and ammo. BLM/antifa or anyone, are welcome to find out if them guns are zeroed properly.

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  • Michael S on Jul 11, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    Bodoh want to abolish police but when need help first thing they do is call 911.

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    • No one called for abolishment of the police, dude. Protestors called for better accountability and stop of racial profiling.

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      • Semi-Value (Member) on Jul 17, 2020 at 1:30 am

        lol stop reading the huffington post. the protestors and etc are explicitly asking to disband the police force.

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