All over the country, in cities big and small, police departments are recruiting tiny fractions of what they used to be able to. Cleveland's graduating class from police academy this year was 9 piglets. In 2000, they had 87. Similar drops are happening all over the country. Cities may be refusing to defund, but their PDs are shrinking anyways because the vast majority of people have realized that cops are basically evil.

  • PZK [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    There is also at least a chance that if that starts happening more often, the drone pilot will not be as trigger happy because they won't be personally in the situation. Cops are taught and encouraged to get triggered and act first which wouldn't be needed as much in those situations. Though that still leaves room for an apathetic drone operator that doesn't care/gets off to killing someone with anonymous impunity.

    As long as AI isn't deliberately designed to be racist or murderous, I might actually feel safer surrendering to that as opposed to a screaming ape in a the-pigs costume.

    I mean, I have to try to find a way to be bloomer about the future.