The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department recently received a donation of 10 Tesla Cybertrucks from a tech billionaire, fully wrapped, decaled with “TACTICAL VEHICLE” stickers, and kitted out for barricaded-shooter situations. The trucks carry ladders, hand-held ballistic shields, and all the aesthetic signals for serious, high-risk police work. At the unveiling, Sheriff Kevin McMahill touted […]
I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.
Las Vegas haven’t noted whether to keep or sell them.
Any vehicle going into police duty must be “upfitted” aka upgraded with a police package (lights, siren, comms, armor, etc).
Police prefer a certain known standard performance vehicle specs for duty (horsepower, towing, speed, mass, manuvrrability, etc). Teslas are too young to have demonstrated anything of this.
Some out-of-spec police cars (e.g.- retired, siezed, donated) might get another use as community outreach vehicles (D.A.R.E. cars).
Article states an upfitting company named UP.FIT {corrected name} Las Vegas, aka UNPLUGGED PERFORMANCE ®. They are not a preferred public service vehicle upfitter, as they ONLY modify Teslas and only Teslas for contract.
Sheriff McMahill is an uneducated media regurgitator.
A sociology professor of mine worked her first job for Rand. Her assignment was to determine the effectiveness of DARE. She found that it was only effective on eighth grade boys. Rand thanked her, paid her, and shelved the report, because this was the Reagan era.
DARE in wikipedia…
“…In 2002, D.A.R.E. had an annual budget of over $10 million…”
“…in 2012. The new program is called “Keepin’ it REAL” and focuses less on lectures and more on interactive activities, such as practicing refusal and saying no to pressure.[9] It is now less explicitly focused on opposition to drugs, with the broader aim of teaching good decision-making…”
It brings in money, so of course they’re keeping it alive. They’re trying to rebrand it, supposedly helping kids avoid standard teen stuff like suicide, etc. They had a table set up outside of Walgreens a while back. They were well-trained and aggressive, but I’ve spent a lifetime in sales, much of it training people for that same kind of bullshit, so I have no problem blowing them off. Politely, I’m not a monster, but…No thanks.
Fun facts I’ve gathered up…
Wait they’re still doing DARE after it was shown to increase drug use among teens?
DARE is where I learned to make crack, and made my list of drugs I wanted to try.
A sociology professor of mine worked her first job for Rand. Her assignment was to determine the effectiveness of DARE. She found that it was only effective on eighth grade boys. Rand thanked her, paid her, and shelved the report, because this was the Reagan era.
So many reports of studies have been shelved by companies, let alone the government. It’d be fascinating to go through them.
DARE in wikipedia…
“…In 2002, D.A.R.E. had an annual budget of over $10 million…”
“…in 2012. The new program is called “Keepin’ it REAL” and focuses less on lectures and more on interactive activities, such as practicing refusal and saying no to pressure.[9] It is now less explicitly focused on opposition to drugs, with the broader aim of teaching good decision-making…”
It brings in money, so of course they’re keeping it alive. They’re trying to rebrand it, supposedly helping kids avoid standard teen stuff like suicide, etc. They had a table set up outside of Walgreens a while back. They were well-trained and aggressive, but I’ve spent a lifetime in sales, much of it training people for that same kind of bullshit, so I have no problem blowing them off. Politely, I’m not a monster, but…No thanks.
Oh, sweet summer child, you thought they were actually trying to reduce drug use?
Sounds like it is exactly doing what it should. Give the police more to do in the future.