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A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Tesla Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

if they're anything like the ICE cruisers... they're dropping another shitload in up grades. custom-built gun vaults, as well as other specially-built storage .... first aid, extra handcuffs. leg cuffs. Kiddie cuffs. flex-cuffs. evidence collection. Road safety stuffs. Flashlights. speed radar thingies. rolls of printer paper for citation printers. Cameras. spare uniforms. Condoms for the badgebunnies. extra batteries for radios. extra batteries for flashlights. batteries for cameras. extra uniforms. all sorts of bullshit paperwork and forms that only get filled out when they come a cross a karen. Door breaching and lock out tools

needless to say, cops keep a lot of junk in the trunk. So much so the cop's version of the ford explorer ("Police Interceptor Utility") actually only has a special suspension to handle the extra weight, and 2 rows of seating instead of 3 to accommodate the entirely-custom storage rack.

oh. you thought they were talking about body armor... naw. They get APC's for that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is also the extra radio, sirens, lights, and some have built in radar and plate scanning cameras. I'm pretty sure there are extra batteries and a stronger alternator to keep systems powered and ensure engine starts if auxiliary power is drained.

Different crusiers also have different set ups. Some are normal patrol cars while others have K-9 accomadations, shield and extra defensive gear, pursuit intervention tools like spikes and stop sticks. Cops use such a wide variety of tools that one crusier can't fit every tool for every situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

They've got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant. They've got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. They're a model made before catalytic converters so they'll run good on regular gas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

sounds like he either worked in ICE or kitted the vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I think he meant ICE as in 'internal combustion engine' vehicles, because I'm reasonably certain ICE doesn't do evidence collection or write citations with printers. I think ICE also handles karens quite differently.