Dear PoPville – What’s the story with the “cop pimpmobile”?

“Dear PoPville,

Is it possible to find out why on earth MPD has a pimpmobile?”

Sightings of this unusual MPD ride comes up every year or so:

“it’s not a real Excalibur, belonged to a drug dealer, the DC police now use it to visit schools and talk about how it was confiscated.”