San Francisco Police Pave the Way For Robots To Apply Deadly Force In Extreme Situations

[Joe Cool]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/san-francisco-police-pave-way-211000337.html


Somehow the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 Tuesday to allow its police force to have the ability to deploy “lethal, remote controlled” robots in extreme situations, according to The Associated Press.

Many civil liberty and oversight groups objected to this motion being approved in a heated two-hour debate. Both the ACLU and San Francisco’s public defender cited concerns this tactic would be used in poor and minority neighborhoods where police have been known to be heavy-handed. They also claim the parameters under which users would be allowed were too vague. The measure requires a second vote next week and the mayor’s approval.

[marble falls]

1. The lawsuits will be phenominal.

[WarGamer]

2. Was used by the Dallas PD a few years back.

Cop killer scumbag was hiding in a building and DPD sent in a robot with explosives and remote detonated it.

[sarisataka]

3. Well it's San Francisco which is considered progressive

Although the meaning can be contextual

[TheBeam19]

4. Next, they'll have armed drones over

certain neighborhoods.

[Tickle]

7. I never thought of that NT

[Sneederbunk]

5. What if a bad guy's robot applies deadly force to a police robot?

[bronxiteforever]

6. Joe, remember when the Dallas police used it first

The possibility is not merely hypothetical. In 2016, the Dallas Police Department ended a standoff with a gunman suspected of killing five officers by blowing him up with a bomb attached to a robot in what was believed to be the first lethal use of the technology by an American law enforcement agency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/us/police-robots-san-francisco.html#:~:text=The%20advantage%20of%20robots%2C%20Mr,lethal%20force%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.

[Kennah]

8. Hair products

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. This is what "police reform" looks like.