I kind of doubt it. It's not like you enter into a contract with Uber just by downloading the app, and I don't think you have a legal right to use their services. Maybe you could drum up some sort of civil rights violation? But I don't think law enforcement is actually a protected class...
> It's not like you enter into a contract with Uber just by downloading the app
Ahh, but Uber themselves say you ARE!
"By accessing or using the Services, you confirm your agreement to be bound by these Terms..."
It'd be incredibly amusing to watch their lawyers try to argue it both ways though. They'd have to either admit that they did have a contract, or they'd have to completely tear up their terms-of-service.
IANAL or even very knowledgeable so I could be way off here. Looking up the legal definition of fraud, I found that it requires:
(1) a false statement of a material fact, (2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue, (3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged victim, (4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the statement, and (5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.
1-4 seem obvious enough, but I'm not sure about #5. Would wasting their time or interfering with their enforcement job be enough to qualify as "injury"? Or, since they're acting on behalf of the local government, would it count as injury against that government due to not being able to prosecute crimes and apply fines that they would have been able to if Uber hadn't lied?
"A material fact is an occurrence, event, or information that is sufficiently significant to influence an individual into acting in a certain way, such as entering into a contract. In formal court procedures, a material fact is anything needed to prove one party's case, or tending to establish a point that is crucial to a person's position."
The location of cars will influence the user's actions, and false cancellations definitely will.
I'm not sure what wouldn't be material in this case, but maybe it would exclude things that are unrelated to Uber? Like if Uber told you that Wal-Mart was selling weed whackers for $5, that wouldn't be fraud because it's not material to your relationship with Uber.
