San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a controversial draft policy that would...

San Francisco Police Department clarified that it would not seek to arm any of its robots with firearms but rather with explosives as an "intermediate force option" that could prove to be lethal.

Lmao, I was naïve enough to think this wasn’t really gonna happen, and the libs weren’t gonna go and endorse dollar store Robocop, but :yea:

Dean Preston remains a tiny dot of light in California politics:

"We’re talking about a sniper in a fully occupied hotel, and the solution... would be to put a bomb-bearing robot to blow up that hotel?" Preston asked about the Vegas scenario. Of the suicide bomber, he asked, “We’re going to use a robot with a bomb to subdue a suicide bomber?”

Just amazing to think the levels of violence that are going to be unleashed on poor people in the next 20 years.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The final language, after Peksin's amendment, reads, "Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and officers cannot subdue the threat after using alternative force options or de-escalation tactics options, or conclude that they will not be able to subdue the threat after evaluating alternative force options or de-escalation tactics. Only the Chief of Police, Assistant Chief, or Deputy Chief of Special Operations may authorize the use of robot deadly force options."

    Ha, yeah. No way officers will abuse the language in this to just do what they do best:what-the-hell:

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Even the wording of this is just so much tac-speak for "we will use this whenever we get scared and don't want to deal with something."

    • cogito_ergo_cum [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They're gonna use this at some mass shooting and end up killing more innocents than the shooter

      • NPa [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They are going to wait until the shooting stops and then send in the drone to double-tap any survivors inside the kindergarten.