A California police department wants to be the first agency to have a law enforcement-branded Cybertruck, according to an internal email obtained by 404 Media.
The email Sergeant Jacob Gallacher, of the Anaheim Police Department, sent in early February read “P.S. I spoke with the Chief yesterday and we still want to be the first police agency to have a Cybertruck. If anyone can make that happen, I know it is you!” Gallacher sent the email to James Hedland from UP.FIT, a company that sells modified Teslas for use by law enforcement. The email was part of a conversation about the department’s use of Teslas.
Gallacher later told 404 Media that the email was something of “a joke,” but reaffirmed the agency’s wish to obtain a Cybertruck before other agencies, even if more for “community engagement” than using it as a patrol vehicle.
“We would, but it’s not necessarily from a patrol perspective,” Gallacher said. 404 Media obtained the email through a public records request.
lol. We definitely need cop cars vulnerable to flipper zeros.
Just further proof of the idiocy of the average cop.
It doesn’t surprise me that cops want something that is ugly and tacky and completely unnecessary. And they’ll use a shit ton of taxpayer money to get it too.
Im all for this.
Easier to elude the
policecapital defense force when they drive a shitbox.Imagine the fingers that will be lost in the trunk and the heads that will be smacked into the steel roof until it just looks like the top of the doors are painted red.
When people lose random limbs, they can argue the person tried to resist the arrestment and got in between the moving parts. It totally wasn’t on purpose.
That is exactly my expectation. Put their hands on the trunk while they frisk them, “accidentally” hit the trunk close button, then either the person loses fingers or gets shot for resisting arrest when they move them out of the way.
I still think fondly on the time I saw a burning cop car during the BLM protests. That was a good day; Grateful for the promise of more to come.
Yeah, but then the cops tracked that person down by what SHIRT they were wearing.
Amazing how good they are at solving crimes when they really apply themselves. Wouldn’t it be wild if they did that for us?
We aren’t part of the owning class, police will never care about the working class in this system.
The kind of person who actually wants a Cybertruck is definitely the kind of person who would be interesting in being a dickhead cop.
Dubai police already have a cybertruck in service.
Part of being the police is advertising that there are police here, as a deterrent. This works well for that.
But another part is having fast, reliable vehicles able to out maneuver other cars on the road, to stop criminals after the fact. Not so good at that part.
Idk about reliability, but electric cars can have crazy speed and acceleration.
Sort of. EVs are very fast off the line, but generally very heavy. It might be good for handing out speeding tickets on a freeway, but a pursuit on surface streets would probably not go as well.
It’s also a fairly tall EV. I bet if you slid into a curb or something, it’ll roll like Peppy Hare.
Assuming the thing worked as advertised and they get a VERY steep discount, it might be a good idea?
Eh chases aren’t that common. Most of the time police won’t pursue because it puts the public in more danger. Especially populated areas.
Wouldn’t criminals just wait to do crimes until it’s raining?
How do you get away from a cyber truck? Spray it with water
Water balloons soon to be outlawed in California according to law enforcement source.
Aren’t they already outlawed?
It’s possible. Especially if they cause cancer.
Everything causes cancer.
Then it should be outlawed. Safety first!
Just like guns.
Lol figures this shit is from california.
I’ve always thought these looked like they belong in a science-fiction b-movie. With the blue paint and police lights on top, they really look like they’re from a RoboCop knock-off film.
I keep saying it looks like a fiberglass shell over an El Camino in an 80s post-apocalyptic film.
Then I found out about the movie Battletruck.
I almost think Elon is a fan…
Exactly! Don’t forget about Megaweapon:
And Space Mutiny:
And apparently I’m five years late to the party:
Megaweapon! Megaweapon! Megaweapon!
ngl I’d pour water on it.
These the same kind of cops that vote solidly republican because they “hate government waste”?
“Devout Republicans”
It’s not hypocrisy when you understand that “waste” is conservative for “helps the poor and/or minorities”
Do ya one better:
waste
something that doesn’t benefit me or doesn’t solely benefit me
—conservatives
Except that they love policies that only benefit rich people who don’t care about them.
Also they have no shame. And, don’t know what hypocrisy means.
One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.