12mo ago

Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows

www.404media.co

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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.
In other words, we have too much money.
- and this is why defund the police was such a hot topic. To those on the other side, they think we mean "Get rid of all police, zero funding, go away"
  When in reality it's "Uh, they literally have too much money, they're buying literal tanks. What if we took some of that tank/cybertruck money and gave it to trained professionals who could help in conflict situations?"
  
  Honestly? Considering how little the police actually do to help anyone, versus the huge amount of harm they cause, I'm not entirely convinced that "Get rid of all police" wouldn't be a good idea, even if they got replaced with basically nothing. And I've seen a lot of leftists who felt similarly. So "those on the other side" aren't entirely wrong; they just don't understand how incredibly bad police are.
  This doesn't mean we should replace the police with literally nothing — obviously things investing in social services and crisis intervention would be great. It's just that I find it hard to do worse than what currently exists.
  
  To those on the other side, they think we mean "Get rid of all police, zero funding, go away"
  It was literally "abolish the police", but the shitlibs watered it down to nothing as usual.
  
  Or better training, so people don't hate them. Though, there is laws too.
- Well I've heard Cybertrucks are getting cheap because not many people want them.
well, intelligence is not a requirement. it tracks.
Anyone who doesn’t think that the end goal for the Cybertruck isn’t military/police contracts hasn’t really been paying attention to how tech firms grow.
I’m mostly surprised that no US police departments have any of them yet.
- Overpriced and underperforming, so definitely military-grade.
- I’m mostly surprised that no US police departments have any of them yet.
  They're trying out in a feeder dystopia first.
  
  Yeah, that seems about right.
Anything to justify running over even more pedestrians than they already do...
- Then they could do so with fewer emissions!
Gangsters will rejoice https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-isnt-nearly-as-bulletproof-as-elon-musk-wants-you-to-think
Fascists buying crap from an oligarch.
I don't think that PS1 model of a car will ever look acceptable to me. It's not a design that grows on you or you get accustomed to. It's just bad.
Hot take, but this police cybertruck looks pretty rad tbh, putting the obvious real life issues aside tho.
- Looks like what "the future" looked like in the 80s and early 90s. Like Total Recall or BttF Pt. 2
  
  Elon basically saw the Robocop action toys from the ‘90s and thought “Yes, I want that to be real”.
- Eh. Looks like a generic sci-fi movie reject.
Probably need them for off-roading on rural gravel roads.
- I think you might be being sarcastic, but in Anaheim? That is where Disneyland is located. Not much rural there.
  
  It was more a joke about the people who keep uploading videos of them “offroading” in their cybertrucks (trying to justify their purchase) and it’s really no different than a whole lot of actual rural roads that people drive on daily with their 20 year old two wheel drives sedans.
  
  I am not even sure you could find an unpaved road in Anaheim unless it is part of a park.
  
  I think they have speed bumps, don't they? I know there are curbs just waiting to be run over.

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