A Long Beach, Calif., police robot inspects a suspicious package at a bus stop on Ximeno Ave. just north of Pacific Coast Highway on Jan. 27, 2010. San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations.
The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.
Supervisors amended the proposal Tuesday to specify that officers could use robots only after using alternative force or de-escalation tactics, or concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through those alternative means. Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option.San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations, the department says.
All part of the Plan
Hell, yeah, I am ready to fight the robots in the THUNDERDOME
Robots that knowingly have racist base coding UNWatch
How is this any different than the drones we use to drop bombs
This is inhumane. Of course cops always find new ways to kill people instead of spending money on learning how to treat people like human beings.
And so it began
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