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When people say "defund the police" this is the kind of shit they are talking about. There is no reason for a police force to have access to lethal robots. None.

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frickinLasers|3 years ago

As the article mentions, they are bomb disposal robots. There is absolutely reason to have a tool capable of firing a shotgun shell attached, and an arm capable of placing a charge. You could hobble the bomb squad with legislation, make their job more deadly--or you could ban this particular use.

Source: I just know. That robot saves lives.

proc0|3 years ago

Well, they probably are looking into this because they were defunded and don't have enough officers.

braingenious|3 years ago

It’s crazy how defunding the SFPD involves raising their budget every single year. It’s almost as if “the police have been defunded” is a bit of rhetoric to justify more spending and more draconian violence.

https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-departmen...

heavyset_go|3 years ago

Weird, considering this administration allocated $37 billion in funds to hire another 100,000 police officers.

petilon|3 years ago

One word --> Uvalde.

A remote-controlled robot equipped with a gun is needed in this type of situation. The gun will be operated by a human, remotely.

neoromantique|3 years ago

Or you know, Police Officers inside, doing their jobs. But arresting parents was indeed higher priority.

Kye|3 years ago

How is that going to work against a target that moves, is possibly wearing armor, and is shooting back?

butMebbe|3 years ago

Train citizens to drive robot non-lethal surveillance drones, do paperwork, cut funding for rage prone meat bag policing.

Maintain minimum required force of trigger happies for all the shooting scenarios.

Our secular society isn’t anymore sacrosanct than religious based choices. It should be readily reorganize-able as logistics demand.

Optimizing for 24/7 status quo politics, profit margin optimizing and rent extraction “or else the world ends” is not so different from forcing unfalsifiable magic down our throats.

thwayunion|3 years ago

> Train citizens to drive robot surveillance drones, do paperwork

Aka hire more cops. A cop in the US is just a citizen with 3-6 months of tactical and paperwork training.