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.
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
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.
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
- Digit amputator
At $150k, I’d say it’s a 6-digit amputator
Of course it would fucking be Irvine and of course it would be the provenly-inedfective D.A.R.E. folks.
For you non Californians, Irvine is a corporation that bought up land and made a “utopian” suburban city. I went to grad school there. It’s the kind of place you get pulled over for having long hair (as I can attest to).
Edit with a joke: People from Irvine be all like “Who is John Galt”.
D.A.R.E. taught me that random people will force me to take drugs. Still waiting on that one. We did learn you can get high from sniffing glue though.
It’s a real shame; Irvine has lots of great food, and it’s another large east-Asian population center within the LA-OC metro area, but it’s also so staunchly Republican that I can’t stand to watch local news down there.
That’s nothing against the university, though. I have family who got their degrees there, and I even took summer classes on campus once. I dig the school and it was my fallback when I applied for colleges (back when it was possible to have a fallback).
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.
I like how they’re trying to encourage people to say no to drugs with an expensive vehicle from a company headed by a notorious drug abuser.
Say no to drugs or you will approve of shit like this “car”
The only way that makes any sense.
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.
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
Maybe just… Defunding the police just a liiiiitle bit wouldn’t be so bad…
Im joking btw dont hurt me or argue at me ;-;
They do need to defund them if they are paying for this shit.
Police also shouldn’t be out for 5150s but here we are. At least suicide by cop is easy
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”
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
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…
I’m more surprised that D.A.R.E. still exists.
Even when I was a kid in the 90s, it was largely known then it was a massive failure.
By highschool, most of the kids doing drugs renamed it Drugs Are Really Expensive. Probably didn’t help that the police officer assigned to the high school was known amongst the students to be selling drugs to the students.
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.
'member when all the “cool” DARE cop cars were seized drug dealer cars?
Screw Elon. Stop spending tax money to support his endeavors.
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?
