Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are coming

I will laugh my ass off when this thing breaks down and catches on fire during their "tactical response" after someone throws a water bottle at it.

With the all-wheel drive Cybertruck’s current $79,990 price, it stands to reason the combined taxpayer cost for a vehicle and new UP.FIT features could easily top $90,000. <

I'd be pretty upset if my municipality was set to dump 100k on this trash.

“You’re under a rust!”

Not sure that's a great idea given that prisoners can simply escape using the gaps in the doors

So another tax payer handout to Musk?

Man, he is THE welfare Queen

does crime in a rain storm or up a sandy incline

The cops:

911: "Sorry, it's raining "

lol. Cool, cop cars that are weak to flipper zeros.

I cant wait to see a cop fail to catch some Redneck driving the king of all shitboxes because the cop is driving a cybertruck and its litely drizzling outside.

I feel there's a great intersection of cops and those people who still buy into Elon's bullshit. It couldn't be any other way.

Looking forward to seeing a lot of cops missing fingers

Any department that actually buys one of these turkeys is going to be very unhappy about the maintenance costs. Can't park under trees, can't let it get rained on, and if you're in a medium-speed accident, the lack of crumple zone will injure your officers at higher rates.

Surely with their budgets and current level of militarisation, US police departments could afford real APCs/light infantry vehicles rather than this mall-ninja tacticool cosplay garbage.

Sweet! Outrunning the cops will be super easy if they start using these pieces of shit!

Looks like its a good time to be a criminal

I'd be more worried if they switched to old white tacomas. switch to persistent car chases. Never speeding, just following along waiting for you to run out of fuel. Oh you going off road? That huge dent on the roof is when it rolled over back in '03. I got 2 jerry cans my partner can pour while still driving.

And so it begins, a billionaire owning the police. Smart move Musk, smart move.

I put a quarter in the siren.

I am just sitting here looking at all you people upset about government waste and thinking about the crap I see every day working for a company that is primarily a government contractor. The river of dirty money.

Just this week alone, and this is Thursday, I told a state employee PE that his spec calls for a part no longer manufactured and if he doesn't update his spec he is going to get whatever I find on eBay and he said he doesn't care. Tens of millions of dollars project and this guy is having me put in used parts on a new system.

This could be a huge money save. Might cost the city less if they simply bisect pedestrians in police chases instead of paralysing them from the waist down.

get ready to be nailed by stuck at 100% throttle hunk of low grade stainless on wheels, on taxpayer dollar. pray that it rains and you may live.

im gonna vandalize them

I hope these skyrocket in popularity. Because I love Elon Musk! Yeah! Definitely! That's right! That's absolutely the reason! No others!

The taxpayers should sue for misuse/abuse of funds if any of these get bought by or for police departments. They don't need every expensive toy they set their eyes on.

"We have an officer down! He closed his door and now he's bleeding out." reference

"We have an inflated budget and we need to spend every penny of it, even if it's on dumb bullshit."

Do NOT buy these, there's no US flag on it. /s

And - check this out:

https://teslafollowers.quora.com/How-would-a-Tesla-do-in-a-police-chase-Would-it-be-able-to-outrun-a-cop-car-such-as-a-Dodge-Charger-Ford-Crown-Victori

This car is horribly ugly

But do they put giant “In God We Trust” decals on the back to reach maximum level of cringe?

At least they are more fuel efficient than the military MRAPs and APCs they’ve been getting.

/s

All cops should be forced to drive them

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can the cops learn from the toyota war that toyota trucks are VASTLY more reliable and durable than the cybertruck

Of-fucking-course they are.

Shoulda seen this coming…

Right out of Carmageddon

simply drive around until the batteries run out

I'd buy that for a dollar!

My first thought was the polygonal cars from Perfect Dark's Chicago Streets level

That's fine, as long as they put the sirens on the inside and the shotgun racks on the outside.

EDF patrol car from red faction

The rear has no headroom, so that is going to suck even worse to be put in the back of if you are like 6ft.

They will probably give them to the officers that don't do traffic enforcement because they would be terrible at anything other than presence. Literally every other model Tesla would be better at being a cop car.

Pussy

I like that, looks pretty badass