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Die-Nacht t1_jdckzft wrote

Electric NYPD cars don't make much sense, this all just feels like greenwashing. If they get into a crash, you would need to scrap the entire car as the battery may be damaged. EVs are also more expensive than ICE cars.

We need the NYPD to move away from cars altogether and use smaller modes of mobility. Most police work isn't chasing down people on highways or transporting people, so why do they need so many large cars? Just give every department like 20 e-bikes for every car, only keep a couple of cars per precinct for people transport.

Not only would it increase police efficiency (no traffic restriction), but it would also open up the NYPD to be more empathetic and better at policing. Being in a protected, metal box leads to a disassociation from the surrounding space and people (you may as well be in a private house, not a public space). This has been shown to lead people to become less empathetic (this is also why perfectly normal people can sometimes become lunatics behind the wheel). We don't want police officers that don't feel part of the place they are patrolling, that's how you end up with afraid, trigger-happy officers.

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Grass8989 t1_jdclm7t wrote

You should join the NYPD and advocate for this! Also, the NYPD had the least amount of police related shootings of any major department in this country, they’re not going around doing drive-bys.

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Daddy_Macron t1_jdcrnlr wrote

> If they get into a crash, you would need to scrap the entire car as the battery may be damaged.

If you get to the point where the crash damages the battery, it would have probably scrapped an equivalent internal combustion car as well. Fender benders don't take EV's out of commission and the battery pack is usually built into the structure that to damage it, you'd have to damage the car at a structural level.

>EVs are also more expensive than ICE cars.

Upfront, but the cost of operations is more important to an organization that uses them nearly everyday. Lower cost of energy and less maintenance alone will save more than the additional purchase price.

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