And what happens when all of the local municipalities get these shiney new, big boy toys?
Well, they look for the smallest damn excuse to take them out to play!
Coming to an unwarrented home invasion near you!
(your neighbor didn’t like you throwing his dog’s poop back into his yard.....)
In a sane world, most of these would be surplused after a year or two because the fleet departments don’t have the tools or labor to maintain them or the budget for sustained operations.
I’ve been involved in providing fleet services to LE for years and you would be surprised at what they can do to equipment. It’s part of their entitlement mentality. They will purposely abuse any and all vehicles, computers, office copiers if and when they so choose so that they can get the newest toys loaded with all of the gadgets.
We always ran pool to see how long it would take to crash the new cars. Shortest time was 9 days and the officer took out a power pole. The chief called me out to the scene and was explaining what happened and that the driver laid down 200 ft of skid marks. I looked around and didn’t see any and then reminded him that the vehicle was equipped with ABS and that the speed limit on the city street was only 25 and asked if he was responding to a shooting? The chief just looked at me and couldn’t believe that I was trying to use logic to figure out one of his boys could total a new car in only 9 days...