Simpsons Hit And Run Police Car
Zareen Zapata
Chief Clancy Wiggum[4]is a fictional character from the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. He is the chief of police in the show's setting of Springfield, and is the father of Ralph Wiggum and the husband of Sarah Wiggum.
Gluttonous, irresponsible, and immature, Wiggum is often too lazy, cowardly, and corrupt to bother fighting crime. His more responsible subordinate officers Eddie and Lou play the straight men to his shenanigans.
His surname "Wiggum" is Matt Groening's mother's maiden name.[5] As "a conscious pun", Wiggum was designed to look like a pig.[6][7] Hank Azaria first based his voice for Wiggum on David Brinkley, but it was too slow and he switched it to an Edward G. Robinson impression.[6][7]
Chief Wiggum is of Irish descent.[8] Per the episode "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'", it is revealed that Wiggum's father Iggy served in Abe Simpson's infantry squad. In the episode "Mother Simpson", a teenaged Wiggum was a trainee security guard at Springfield University when Homer's mother Mona sabotaged the University's laboratory, which Mr. Burns was using for biological weapons. Antibiotics used to kill the weapons cured Wiggum's asthma, allowing him to join the police force.
Many episodes have dealt with the back story of how Wiggum, despite his incompetence, occupies such a high rank in the Springfield Police Department; However, these jokes tend to contradict one another, as is the usual with side characters on The Simpsons.[9] Wiggum was temporarily promoted to Commissioner of Police for the state in which Springfield resides during the 2005 episode "Pranksta Rap".[10] He also appeared on a Halloween novel depicting Netflix's Stranger Things Chief Jim Hopper.[11]
Despite his severe incompetence at his occupation, Wiggum on occasion has helped numerous other characters, such as helping Homer find his wife in "Marge on the Lam". He rescued Maggie Simpson when she ran away from home to look for Marge in "Homer Alone", by helping Lisa Simpson find Mr. Burns's assailant in "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"[12][13] as well as helping backing her up in a school protest on one occasion in "The President Wore Pearls". In the episode "Pranksta Rap" he manages to find the presumed kidnapped Bart Simpson in Kirk Van Houten's apartment. He also arrived just in time during crucial moments such as the myriad of times Sideshow Bob has attempted to kill Bart Simpson. Wiggum is also shown to be a loving father of his son Ralph. Perhaps the best example of this is in the episode "Mother Simpson", where he leads the FBI astray in their search for Mona Simpson; Wiggum allowed her to escape due to his gratitude towards her for curing his previously mentioned asthma.
He is often shown to be ambivalent towards the residents of Springfield; It's heavily implied that he doesn't act this way out of malice. This is because he is either doing his job, or is simply ignorant of the situation. He also showed a great deal of insight during the episode "Chief of Hearts", where he and Homer become friends; when Homer asks him why he's willing to show Homer his favorite parts of Springfield, Wiggum tells him "Cops don't have many friends. Civilians are afraid of us, and other cops...they just remind us of things we want to forget."
The Springfield Police Department is Springfield's police force. They are headed by the largely incompetent Police Chief Wiggum. There are at least three officers at the Station although in some cases large groups of officers and cars are shown but none are named. The facilities are quite small for a town the size of Springfield with only a few Cruisers and Officers.
The police force is extremely corrupt, known for taking bribes from criminals, misusing equipment and mishandling evidence. The police are also known to have been bribed by Diamond Mayor Joe Quimby, covering up scandals, and working to keep the public out of the political business. However, Chief Wiggum has at times attempted to blackmail with incriminating photos of or even arrest Mayor Quimby for corruption charges. The Police Department also suffered at least one prisoner uprising where the prisoners stole their guns, tazers, and uniforms leaving the police at the prisoners mercy and attempted to call for help.[1]
After a huge economic crisis, the police force was forced to allow low-level crime spread like wildfire as a result of massive cutbacks preventing them from having the resources to effectively enforce the law (to the extent that they actually had to use an extremely ineffective substitute for a radar gun by mixing a thermos with a hose head, and Chief Wiggum having to draw a gun to make it seem as though he actually had one).
Police CarObtainable inLevel 5UnlockPurchase (Gil)Cost425 Vehicle StatisticsSpeedAccelerationToughnessHandlingMiscellaneous InformationDriven byChief WiggumThe Police Car is an unlockable vehicle in The Simpsons: Hit & Run. It is available from the phone booth at any time.
The Police Car is a black and white sedan with the Springfield Police Department seal emblazoned on the side. It has a pair of blue and red flashing lights, and an antenna at the rear end. A police siren that replaces the horn. The car bears a strong resemblance to the real life 1983 Ford LTD Crown Victoria.
The Police Car is a highly versatile Level 5 vehicle due to its great speed and handling, decent toughness, and good acceleration. It can reach top speed in a short amount of time, which gives it the ability to quickly keep up with and complete general mission objectives with ease, and it can easily cut corners in the process. Not to mention that its toughness and relatively high mass make it a viable choice for Destroy Objectives, where it can deal surprisingly high damage to target vehicles.
The trial that followed gripped the nation, inspiring unprecedented media scrutiny along with heated debates about racial discrimination on the part of the police. Though a jury acquitted Simpson of the murder charges in October 1995, a separate civil trial in 1997 found him liable for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the Brown and Goldman families.
In 2007, Simpson ran into legal problems once again when he was arrested for breaking into a Las Vegas hotel room and taking sports memorabilia, which he claimed had been stolen from him, at gunpoint. On October 3, 2008, he was found guilty of 12 charges related to the incident, including armed robbery and kidnapping, and sentenced to 33 years in prison. He was released from prison in October, 2017, and died of cancer on April 11, 2024.
When the verdict was handed down on October 4, 1995, I couldn't imagine that we would still be talking about The People v. Orenthal James Simpson more than 20 years later. I certainly never would have guessed there would be a hugely popular television series on the trial and a multi-part ESPN documentary.
The trial raised many issues: racism, celebrity, domestic violence, media coverage of criminal cases. As a result, it generated some very important and necessary discussions. As lead prosecutor on the case, I have followed those discussions very closely.
Just two years before O.J. Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, an all-white jury acquitted Los Angeles Police Department officers who had been videotaped ruthlessly beating black taxi driver Rodney King. Long-simmering racial hostilities boiled over. The riots that erupted following the verdict have been characterized as the most violent of the 20th century.
Long before we started to pick a jury for the Simpson trial, we'd heard that particularly among African Americans, there was talk that the trial would be a chance at payback for the Rodney King verdict. It was a problem we couldn't solve, but it had to be addressed. So I raised the issue during jury selection and asked the jurors if they thought this trial was a chance for payback. No one raised their hand. But a short time later, a black juror was overheard saying, "It's payback time."
But over the course of nine sequestered months, the constant litany of racially incendiary remarks jogged memories, rekindled latent mistrust, and corroded the framework of law and logic we had tried to establish. Jibes and digs like Mr. [Johnnie] Cochran's gratuitous comments to Detective Tom Lange about his house in Simi Valley conjured up images of the Simi Valley jury that acquitted the police officers who'd beaten Rodney King.
By the time the infamous Mark Fuhrman tapes were played and the jury heard Fuhrman's voice spewing racial slurs and despicable stories of police brutality, even those who had started out with an open mind likely found it impossible to believe in Simpson's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
I'd been handling trials in downtown Los Angeles for 10 years by the time I was assigned to the Simpson case. I'd prosecuted many cases involving African-American defendants in which there were African-American jurors. The defense lawyers routinely found a way to inject race into the trials, yet the juries had convicted.
To many members of the African-American community, it didn't matter much that Simpson was an unlikely target for police malfeasance; it was critical that this successful black man not be taken down by a discriminatory system.
In that manner, race and stardom were intertwined. Had the defendant been a famous white football player or an ordinary black citizen, I believe he would have been convicted. But his position as a black man who was also a celebrity was doubly powerful: It assured loyalty to Simpson and reinforced African-American jurors' distrust of the police.
But seeing the hideous, vividly detailed recent footage of these shootings has made me feel the injustice viscerally, and given me a deeper understanding of why the African-American jurors viewed the Simpson case so differently than I did. Now, more than ever before, we can all see the reasons for ourselves in smartphone videos, dash cam clips, and surveillance tapes: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Laquan McDonald ... the list goes on and on.
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