Multiple NYPD Cars Caught Blasting Star Wars “Imperial March” Theme Song on Patrol

By JG Vibes

It seems that some members of the NYPD are able to understand that they aren’t the “good guys”, but unfortunately they seem to be embracing it.  Multiple police cars have been spotted blasting Darth Vader’s theme song from their squad cars, the music that typically signals the entrance of the dark lord and his storm trooper minions.

This week NYMag has done a series of stories, interviewing some of the people who witnessed these sadistic and immature antics.

The article retells two different eyewitness testimonies which can be read below:

Tyler Sargent was out for a nighttime run in Prospect Park two weeks ago, at around 9 p.m., when he heard some familiar music in the distance. It was the “Imperial March” — also known as Darth Vader’s theme song — and it was growing louder. That’s when an NYPD cruiser drove by him, “blasting” the song “at a volume that surely must have drowned out any emergencies being dispatched from the Death Star,” Sargent (who happens to be the former bassist for the band Clap Yours Hands Say Yeah) tells Daily Intelligencer. 

“The cops were laughing like stoned high-school kids as they drove by,” he added. 

It turns out this wasn’t an isolated incident. On March 29, also just around 9 p.m., Scott Rosann was walking his dog on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. The TV editor tells us he heard the “Imperial March” and thought to himself, “Huh. You don’t hear THAT coming out of car windows in this neighborhood very often.” He was surprised to discover that the car in question was a police cruiser, its emergency lights bouncing off the nearby buildings as it headed away from him on 12th Street.

“No doubt whatsoever that that song was coming from that car,” Rosann says. “No other squad cars arrived on the scene, so I was deprived of hearing the ‘Raiders March‘ as an encore.”