21-YEAR-OLD OF THE FOUND IN HIS APARTMENT. LAPD MADE A DEAL ABOUT GOING GREEN WITH A FLEET OF ELECTRIC BMW'S. OUR DAVID GOLDSTEIN DISCOVERED SOME OF THOSE CARS ARE SITTING IN A GARAGE. REPORTER: $10 MILLION OF OUR TAXPAYER MONEY IS GOING FORWARD LAPD ELECTRIC FLEET IT MAY SOUND GOOD TO HELP ENVIRONMENT, OUR INVESTIGATION FOUND SOME CARS SITTING, OTHERS USED FOR PERSONAL ERRANDS. THIS PART OF A MILLION DOLLAR PILOT PROGRAM, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO GE A MANICURE. REPORTER: WE FOLLOWED THIS COMMANDER DRIVING ONE TO A NAIL SALON. FOR GETTING A MANICURE? CARS ARE PART OF A TAXPAYER FUNDED PROJECT, TO HELP LAPD GO GREEN, OUR INVESTIGATION OF DEPARTMENT RECORDS FOUND SOME OF THE ELECTRIC CARS ARE SITTING UNUSED. WITH A FEW HUNDRED MILES ON THEM. AND WITH HIDDEN CAMERAS WE FOUND OTHERS ARE ALLEGEDLY MESS USED. LAPD UNVEILED PATROL CARS TODAY. -- IN A 2016 PRESS CONFERENCE, LAPD CHIEF BECK GOT OUT OF AN ELECTRIC BMW DRIVEN BY MAYOR GARCETTI, TO TOUT THE CITY'S AM BENEFICIARIOUS PROJECT -- AMBITIOUS PROJECT, BMW RUN CONTRACT TO PROVIDE ELECTRIC CARS FOR LAPD. 100 DELIVERED EACH YEAR FOR 3 YEAR TO BE USED RIGHT NOW FOR ADD MEN SADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES, THE DEPARTMENT IS LEASING CARS, COST $10.2 MILLION THAT INCLUDING CHARGES STATION, MONEY WELL WORTH IT ACCORDING TO LAPD DEPUTY CHIEF JORGE. IT IS PART OF SAVING THE EARTH, GOING GREEN. AND TO TRY TO SAVE MONEY FOR THE COMMUNITY IN TAXPAYER. REPORTER: SOURCES SAY THAT SOME PERSONNEL ARE RE RELUNCTANT TO USE THE CARS THEY CAN ONLY GO 80 TO 100 MILES ON A CHARGE, AND MILEAGE LOGS WE OBTAINED SEEM TO BACK UP TO. FROM PROPROJECT STARTED TO AUGUST 20 S 17 WE FOUND MOST HAVE BEEN USED ONLY FOR A FEW THOUSAND MILES AND A HANDFUL IN THE GARAGE WITH A FEW HUNDRED MILES ON THEM, LIKE THIS ONE IN SERVICE SINCE, MAY, WITH 400 MILES, THAT IS 6 MILES A WEEK WORK MONTHLY LEASE PAYMENT OF MORE THAN $418, THIS ONE COST TAXPAYERS OVER 50 DOLLARS A MILE. THAT DOES NOT WATCH DOG SAID THAT DEPARTMENT WAS MORE INTERESTED IN THE IMAGE. FIRST THEY SHOULD HAVE -- IF THEY ARE GOING TO USE 10 MILLION DOLLARS OF OUR MONEY OR LEASING OF EQUIPMENT, THEY SHOULD HAVE A DAMN PLAN. WHILE SOME ARE USED. WITH HIDDEN CAM ARE WE WATCHED A FEW LAND LAPD PERSONNEL USE CARS IMPROPERLY. WE WATCHED SOMEONE DRIVE IT TO DRIVE-THRU THEN BACK TO THE GARAGE. THAT SOMEONE TROVE FROM DOWNTOWN. TO LOYOLA MAYORMONT. PICKED UP A PERSON WHO APPEARED TO BE A STUDENT, THEN WENT TO LUNCH THIS DAY, ANN MARIE, WHO IS A COMMANDING OFFICER OF LAPD FISCAL OPERATION, SHE USED THE BMW AND STOPPED AT BEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN LONG BEACH, OUTSIDE OF CITY OF L.A. SHE STAYED THERE FOR ALMOST AN HOUR. PULLED OVER. SHE PARKED CAR A FEW BLOCKS AWAY OUTSIDE OF NAIL SALON THAT IS LAPD COMMANDER ON LRFT GETTING A MANICURE. SHE IS POINTING AT HER CAR. SHE GESTURED TO WHERE THE BMW WAS PARKED AS SHE LEFT WITH TTHE MANICURIST. HE DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY. YOU ARE GETTING'S MANICURE USING LAPD BMW'S THIS IS PART OF A PILOT PROGRAM. IS IT SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR GETTING'S MANICURE. I HAVE NO COMMENT. WE SHOWED ASSISTANT CHIEF THE VIDEO, IS THAT PROPER USE OF IT. IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE. REPORTER: IS THAT PRACTICE WHAT MILLION DOLLAR PROGRAM FOR. THEY SAY CARS TO BE USED ONLY FOR, THEY WILL LOOK INTO WHAT WE FOUND, OVERALL, HE CLAIMS THAT PROGRAM IS A SUCCESS, AND HOPES THAT USE OF ELECTRIC CARS WILL
