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 figures this shit is from california.
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.
Dubai police already have a cybertruck in service.
Yes, we need the least functional, least capable, most failure prone, most brutalist vehicle possible. For community engagement.
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Yeah, brutalist and brutal are different. The cyber truck is a fucking stupid design that will hurt people far more than most vehicles (big dumb truck hoods not withstanding).
They aren’t even going to be able to sell them anywhere that has reasonable pedestrian safety laws. CA needs to pass some and kill the fucking thing, not give them to cops who already want to kill anyone who makes them nervous.
Its just like the cars they drew when they were in grade school.
With the very crayons they ate
You’re talking as if they were ever able to graduate elementary school. The last time I saw police near an elementary school they were too scared to go in
community engagement
OK, I’ll argue for the cops on this one. Just this once!
Community engagement is a real thing, gets people talking to cops who otherwise wouldn’t. And that can be a positive experience all around.
For example; The Tulsa cops had a bitchin’ (my 80s coming out) Corvette Stingray they showed off at the fair and every other chance they had. They had quite an audience gathered around, talking about the car at first and then asking questions about LE.
Idea being, it’s not supposed to be a regular cruiser.
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At least Stingrays look good, I don’t think anyone’s gonna be crowding around a cybertruck asking about it’s specs
To car people. To other people it can be a “generic fancy car”, while the Cybertruck can be something unusual that no other car looks alike. Can’t get everyone.
The YouTube channel Throttle House did a road trip with the cybertruck and they found that a lot of people actually were curious about it.
https://youtu.be/xNE-NyaYBcg?si=1CS2DxHsocEYc0b- (around 24:15)
For all it’s flaws, you can’t deny it looks different from all the other cars around, and most people aren’t online enough to have an opinion about Musk and his bullshit, so to them it’s just an interesting looking car.
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Your logic is sound
You’re forgetting the most important part of the Cybertruck for those in the club: danger to pedestrians and non-Cybertruck civilians.
These the same kind of cops that vote solidly republican because they “hate government waste”?
One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.
It’s not hypocrisy when you understand that “waste” is conservative for “helps the poor and/or minorities”
Also they have no shame. And, don’t know what hypocrisy means.
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.
“Devout Republicans”
lol. We definitely need cop cars vulnerable to flipper zeros.
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.
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.
dont advertise for elon, downvote
Being aware of what police departments are up to is not an advertisement for Elon.
Also, no one here is going to buy the
Homer CarCybertruck.I appreciate the sentiment of not promoting Elmo but yeah. Even if it wasn’t a dumpster fire, i doubt there’s a lot of potential buyers here.
If the truck didn’t have a bunch of issues I would totally buy one. I like how it looks.
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.
The Cybertruck explicitly advertises its 120/240vac inverter for ‘job site tools’ and other similar uses; then voids your warranty if you actually use it ‘while stationary’.
Here’s Louis Rossmann ranting about it for a bit.
I’m honestly asking- what would a practical non-stationary use for such a thing be?
The only thing that came to mind is charging cordless tool batteries between job sites. Most other things you’d want mobile usually has a 12v alternative, if not being explicitly designed for travel.
It really is a stupid limitation, and I’m mostly sure it’s there just as an excuse to not payout warranty claims.
The Cybertruck explicitly advertises its 120/240vac inverter for ‘job site tools’ and other similar uses
Oh, that’s nice.
then voids your warranty if you actually use it ‘while stationary’.
That’s not.
Hmm. I wonder if it’s because adding extra charge/discharge cycles eats into battery life, which is probably a major bound on the car’s life.
considers
Honestly, if EVs don’t have a way to read charge/discharge count in a way that’s hard-for-potential-resellers-to-fiddle-with the way odometers are, they probably should, and EV sales should probably list that number the way cars do mileage today, as a measurement of “wear”.
Oh, most definitely. Tracking battery wear should 100% be standard practice, and considered when buying/selling used EVs.
I just find it interesting that Tesla tells you to do something, then ultimately punishes you for doing so.
If you’re not supposed/allowed to use it as a stationary power station; don’t advertise that use case as a selling point.
Wouldn’t criminals just wait to do crimes until it’s raining?
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.
Just further proof of the idiocy of the average cop.
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’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!
