Although Irvine police said they won’t use the Cybertruck as a patrol car, the police department didn’t rule out other uses should the need arise.
A police department in Southern California says it has the country’s first Tesla Cybertruck for police use, but the unusual vehicle won’t see much action.
The Irvine Police Department unveiled the purchase Tuesday in a splashy video on social media, including Facebook and X. The price tag: $153,175.03, including the installation of emergency equipment.
The police department said its Cybertruck would have a limited role: jazzing up anti-drug events at schools through the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.
I think if I were like 10 years old and some cop showed up in a Cybertruck and told me not to use drugs, I’d probably wonder what’s so good about drugs instead.
Oh don’t worry, that’s dare’s normal effect
DARE is still happening places?
That shit causes insane levels of damage…
We had it in elementary schools and they said everything would kill you and was equally bad. So when a few kids started smoking weed in middle school. We expected their lives to be over. A few years later they were fine so everyone started smoking, then kids quickly moved onto coke, opioids and pretty much everything else.
Because they lied about some stuff, most kids assumed they lied about everything.
The cybertruck is obviously fucked, but it’s insane anywhere in the country is still grasping to a program we know hasn’t worked for decades
It’s crazy how expensive it is too. At my HS, as an ASB rep got contacted by DARE reps once and they where oh its only $15k per classroom. It all made sense when I started to learn its always been a money grubbing grift. It never had a good reason to exist other then excuse to charge alot for busybwork.
Not just money.
Kids love cops, so cops love going to schools and having everyone treat them like super heroes
Until there’s a school shooter that is, then suddenly they’re stuck in the phonebooth trying to take their glasses off.
Copaganda
To make things worse, we’ve known they were ineffective for over 20 years
This is sadly the typical progression. People come to the conclusion that drugs aren’t really that big of a deal but then do too much of them. It’s sort of like people turning 21 and getting hammered. Better to help people do things safely and provide alternatives or treatment than to proclaim abstinence.
Our division does DARE with 4th graders still. Officers come in and spew that shit for a few weeks and kids get a bunch of swag and cupcakes for signing a pledge. I’m not a fan of any of it, but it’s above my pay grade.
Just say no!
Ha ha!
I remember in the late 90s the cops in my large city caught flack for buying SUVs in a city with no offroading and zero hills. They gave the same reason. Now all the squad cars are SUVs.
Are car manufacturers actually making cars anymore? Seems they all shifted to SUVs.
Shoulda used that money for a one-off Anti School Drug Event.
Could’ve used the money for supplies and lunches for the kids.
'member when all the “cool” DARE cop cars were seized drug dealer cars?
Nothing would drive me to drugs faster.
Unless you need to go through sand to get to the drugs, or it’s raining.
Or your deal is in a carwash…or you have to off road. Ors it’s too cold…
Maybe just… Defunding the police just a liiiiitle bit wouldn’t be so bad…
Im joking btw dont hurt me or argue at me ;-;
You know you’re on Lemmy, right?
Hahah, people don’t see it right away. Here you’ll get trashed for not saying it with your chest. Honestly, I’m happier than a pig in a donut shop
We can recognize that lowering their funding won’t get rid of their unnecessary expenses
Because this viewpoint exists I died to crime.
Thanks a lot
yur welcome :3
Wait but thats illegal
Huh. I came specifically to say “Defund. Them.”
They do need to defund them if they are paying for this shit.
HONESTLY… not a bad idea ffs. Its like taking away the cookie jar when a kid gets too greedy. “You’ll get the money back when you stop buying useless shit with it”
Police also shouldn’t be out for 5150s but here we are. At least suicide by cop is easy
Do they still give out D.A.R.E. shirts? Those things made you the king of the party when the bong was being passed around in high school.
I’m still trying to find a D.A.R.E. beer koozie.
My son has an old school D.A.R.E shirt he got from Goodwill. He wears it sometimes to go play hardcore shows.
I had a black DARE shirt growing up. It disappeared or got given away at some point and I didn’t care.
Now, the purple Jump Rope For Heart shirt I had was my absolute favorite. I wore that until it evaporated.
Wankers. ACAB.
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uninsurablecybertruck being bought by police stations is the surest sign that police are ignorant money sinks.uninsurable
That story was fake news based on one tweet
Thanks for the update. Corrections tend to be buried. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/geico-tesla-cybertruck-coverage/
I love that the Snopes article has this whole sidebar about how unreliable the cybertruck is to explain why the tweet was so believable
It is a pretty fantastic read.
Oh good, now you can get away with crime if it’s raining
They just make themselves look like such dweebs with that.
Honestly, for a promotional event it’s not the worst thing ever. The kids will all come over and oogle it.
The army landed an Apache in the middle of our track in high school. A cybertruck’s practically a bargain comparatively
Odds are that single helicopter landing cost more than this.
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Yeah but that is usually part of their training, at the very least it is for jet flyovers.
I must object to the comparison of a rare and interesting flying killing machine with a mass-produced pointy truck that works sometimes. Irvine PD is lame.
“Hey kids, this is what cars look like when you’re on drugs. Do you really want THAT?”
This seems like a wild misuse of government services. Aren’t the police in the law enforcement game and not the drug abuse game? Why aren’t the city bus drivers also teaching these programs and getting to drive around sweet ass cybertrucks?
