>>Last year Dubai announced it would supply its police with $400,000 Lamborghini sports cars for use at major tourist sites. Dubai's deputy police chief said the vehicles were in keeping with the Gulf capital's image.
Lamborghinis are fashion or do they have specific functions being part of police scheme of things?
I would say that maybe they are needed to keep pace with all the Lambos the locals have, but I think we all know the police there are not particularly interested in enforcing the law when rich locals are involved.
High-speed police chases are a classic example of fiction over data. They do vastly more harm than they help, but we still have them because police officers grow up thinking they would chase bad guys in cars.
Should your purchase of a Lamborghini include immunity from speeding tickets?
Dubai is surrounded by desert, where going 150+ in your $2 million car is something a lot of people would be tempted to do. If the police's top speed is 90, then the wealthy are above the law.
High-speed police chases do a lot of harm when they take place in dense urban/suburban neighborhoods. The use case for police Lamborghinis is on huge rural/desert highways.
Lamborghinis are fashion or do they have specific functions being part of police scheme of things?