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Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows (www.404media.co)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

The kind of person who actually wants a Cybertruck is definitely the kind of person who would be interesting in being a dickhead cop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Im all for this.

Easier to elude the ~~police~~ capital defense force when they drive an attention seeking shitbox.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Fast acceleration and low fuel use might be desirable characteristics for a police vehicle, but that seems like a kind of pricey vehicle to be used in a role that one expects wear-and-tear in.

thinks

Sometimes police need to sit in their car idle for a long time. If the traction battery in the Cybertruck can be used to drive accessories (like, if there's an inverter or something driven by the traction battery), that might be useful. My understanding is that a number of EVs don't permit for that, though.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing I'm not the only one who immediately heard Dead Kennedys upon reading that.

I'm also guessing the reasons are similar.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

Yes, we need the least functional, least capable, most failure prone, most brutalist vehicle possible. For community engagement.

EDIT: Also the most dangerous to both occupants and especially pedestrians.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Its just like the cars they drew when they were in grade school.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (3 children)

These the same kind of cops that vote solidly republican because they “hate government waste”?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

One man's garbage is another man's treasure.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's not hypocrisy when you understand that "waste" is conservative for "helps the poor and/or minorities"