WARNING THIS POST IS LONG AND DELIBERATE DON"T READ IF YOUR LOOKING FOR SNIDE REMARKS. **Everybody in the public knows the take home car program is a scam. It's a secret the police try to protect but the public knows about it.** The take home car is not a scam. It costs the officer 8 to 10 thousand a year (city's numbers in the labor dispute)in salary to have the car. That's not counting pension contributions. Wait I see your point it is a scam and officers suffer. It's also in policy about how