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Las Vegas Police Touted New “Bulletproof” Cybertrucks. The Only Problem? They Aren’t Bulletproof. (fuelarc.com)
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I feel like that's probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be... like, actually bullet-proof.

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[–] 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Fun facts I've gathered up...

  • 10 Cybertrucks were donated to Las Vegas police.
  • 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.
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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    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..."

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    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.

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