Andreessen Horowitz co -founder Ben Horowitz has donated a fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, the department confirmed to TechCrunch.
Cybertruck’s fleet is the last listing of a Horowitz gifts has given Las Vegas police – a techCrunch relationship has revealed in detail at the end of last year. The business capitalist has donated more than $ 7 million to the department in recent years.
Most of this money has been used to buy technology by Andreessen Horowitz portfolio. From time to time, TechCrunch showed a report, the Police Department offered Horowitz the opportunity to weigh on how technology was developed.
Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill first announced The Cybertruck gift on February 25th at the annual “State of the Department” address. He said during the speech that the trucks were given by an anonymous donor and that they would not come out of the budget of the department. Las Vegas Review-Journal was the first to say that Horowitz and his wife Felicia was behind the gift.
“We want these things because the cops will be safe no matter what. They stop bullets. It is also a huge hiring tool for us,” McMahill said in his speech.
McMahill told the stage that the department would receive 10 Cybertrucks, though an anonymous representative of the department told Techcrunch that Horowitz donates 11 of them. Horowitz did not respond to a request for comments.
The previous gifts of Horowitz to Las Vegas Police were donated by a non -profit police police institution – a funding method that police supporters say it hurts transparency and competition. In this case, however, the department told The Las Vegas Review-Journal that the donation was not made to the police institution. The section did not answer TechCrunch’s question about how the donation was made.
