Ben Horowitz donates Cybertruck fleet to the Las Vegas police

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz has donated a fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, the department has confirmed to TechCrunch. The Cybertruck fleet is the latest entry in a list of gifts Horowitz has given to the Las Vegas police — a relationship TechCrunch revealed in detail late last year. The venture capitalist has donated more than $7 million to the department over the last few years. Most of that money has been used to purchase technology from Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies. At times, TechCrunch’s reporting showed, the police department offered Horowitz the chance to weigh in on how that technology was deployed. Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill first announced the Cybertruck gift on February 25 at his annual “state of the department” address. He said during the speech that the trucks were provided by an anonymous donor and that they wouldn’t come out of the department’s budget. The Las Vegas Review-Journal was the first to report ... Read full article.