Only In America

[Canary42]

Not satisfied with their existing armoury for gunning innocent people down, the US Cops will now use robots.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-becomes-first-us-183117165.html

[piggynose]

And your question is?

[Zacs-Master]

Except the robots won’t have guns.

[Hopkirk]

Our bomb disposal troops have being doing this for years.

[Togo]

I thought that we had been using mindless, unthinking, preprogrammed "robots" for years.

[naomi24]

They’re called politically correct, pussyfooting policemen, Togo. ;o)

[Ellipsis]

I'll always remember seeing this for the first time ...

[Atheist]

Why are some trying to turn this thread into an attack on the UK police?

[tomus42]

This isn't particularly ground breaking. It's just a remote controlled gun.

The real story will be when they hand the decision about whether to shoot and at what over to the robot.

[NYAD]

According to the National Sources of Law Enforcement
Employment Data, Revised October 4, 2016 (sorry, that's the most recent official report I could find), there are 17,398 policing agencies in the US. That leaves 17,397 police agencies that have not approved "killer robots". Once such a robot is used to kill someone, let's see how long that ruling will stand.

I'm not saying that the ruling is a good thing, just that your reaction to it has NO PERSPECTIVE.

[barry1010]

Probably better than the cardboard cutout police officers that were used here a few years ago

[youngmafbog]

We still have Blunkets plastic Bobies.