Ok i don't know where everyone lives, and how your area is. But in Manhattan, traffic gets pretty damn bad, somtimes it'll take like 30 min to go 3 blocks, let alone 20 blocks. Here the municiples / fd / pd / ems / docs are pretty tight with each other. But yeh anyway, why is it so bad that Doc's and other emergency workers have L&S? Not to bash or anything, but say hypothetically, if your wife / child / family member was in an accident, and required immediate neuro surgeory or some speciality surgory, and this just happens to be the manhattan 6pm rush hour where it takes 30 min to go 3 blocks. The surgeon responds to the call, but is stuck in traffic and unable to get through, and having to stop at every red light because he is following the traffic law. During this time, your family member is in critical condition and needs the surgeory within 15 minutes. Because of the lack of lights and sirens, your close one is either dead or permenantly vegitated.
So far majority of the comments i've read have placed an automated assumption that everyone with lights and sirens are egoistical, power hunter, like to show off, drug intoxicated, irrational drivers who don't care about anything else. If any of you have taken an evok class, then you know there are limits and safety restrictions that you must still follow. Just because you have lights and sirens does not mean you can rush red lights without looking, you still have to slow down, look left look right, then proceed. In my opion, it's basically like having a police escort, without the patrol car being infront of you. What difference does it make? so are you saying that the PD or basically no one should have lights and sirens? that's just... wel i won't say, but yeh, my 2 cents