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.
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?
'member when all the “cool” DARE cop cars were seized drug dealer cars?
@MicroWave “So remember, kids – drugs’ll make you do really weird stuff, like pay $153,000 for a Cybertruck.”
…or $44 billion for Twitter…
"For over three decades, our DARE officers have driven attention-grabbing and one-of-a-kind vehicles that never fail to turn heads and excite students,” the department said on Facebook.
How many of those excited students were stopped from using drugs by these attention-grabbing one-of-a-kind vehicles? An exact number isn’t necessary, I’ll accept an educated approximation.
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And she said the department needed a new D.A.R.E. vehicle anyway.
I may be showing my age here, but back when I was a kid, Officer Friendly used to come to my school and tell us how drugs did not make you cool in his regular old patrol car.
I don’t know the exact number, but I’m sure it’s less than zero.
They were usually seized assets which is awful but seems less so than spending over $150k on a vehicle that major insurers refuse to cover.
I drive a school bus and it’s depressing how excited elementary and middle-school kids get when they see a cybertruck. Shit, they still get excited when they see a tesla and those things are everywhere.
I used to work on a school bus and I get excited when I see a CyberTruck, too. Then I can look in the mirror and say, “you’re not the dumbest person I’ve seen today!” It’s a real ego boost.
I don’t doubt kids get excited over them since they’re marketed to people of that maturity level, but I doubt it would convince any of them to not use drugs if they were considering it.
Geico won’t insure it. If others follow, then it’ll be illegal to drive in California, since insurance is mandatory.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Oh good, now you can get away with crime if it’s raining
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
didn’t rule out other uses
- Paper weight
- Accidental jail cell
- Battery ram (see what I did there? Hold for applause)
- Means to explore young citizens’ limited value
Don’t forget - flint and steel for fire starting when you happen to be in an area of the wilds accessible by a shitty city car that dies if it sees a puddle!
- Digit amputator
At $150k, I’d say it’s a 6-digit amputator
Other uses like what…?
“Hey kids, this is what cars look like when you’re on drugs. Do you really want THAT?”
Cops are a parody of themselves.
Didn’t they see the episode of Reno 911 where they bought a Hummvee for “community outreach “?
Really hard to park
