Re: San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots'
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 4:38 pm
It's quite simple: people want the police to utterly prevent crime, and do it without tools of any kind.
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The idea, to my mind, would be that SWAT must be more separate from the police, and harder for traditional police to utilize resources from, before such easily-abused tools should be granted to SWAT. To be sure society, at least any foreseeable time into the future, does need something like SWAT to respond to certain kinds of major crimes, but the equipment and personnel of that organization needs to have a harder separation from standard police departments to maintain their proper function. Someone trained to deal with situations where someone will, more or less by definition, be shooting back is not well suited at all for situations where weapons should never be drawn. The skillset and mentality involved are extremely different with little overlap.
My guy we're literally talking about exploding murder robots. How the fuck are expliding murder robots useful for preventing crime?Frustration wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 4:38 pm It's quite simple: people want the police to utterly prevent crime, and do it without tools of any kind.
I just don't know if people are not on board with this, at least, in theory because I am assuming they don't want cops to actively put their lives at risk if they don't have to.Thebestoftherest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 1:33 am You know I was planning on making a joke you atleast we can have this conversation without you showing up, and this is why we can't have nice things.
Because of the high probability of them being used on people who aren't criminals plus the likelihood of collateral damage.Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:22 am And if these robots can stop crime wile eliminating the risk of the officers controlling them, why would you not want them used? Unless you just want dead cops.
I get that concern but why would a cop not be less likely to use the robots to kill if they obviously, won't fear for their lives wile operating it?pilight wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:06 amBecause of the high probability of them being used on people who aren't criminals plus the likelihood of collateral damage.Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:22 am And if these robots can stop crime wile eliminating the risk of the officers controlling them, why would you not want them used? Unless you just want dead cops.
Given how often they get wrong addresses when serving no-knock warrants, I'd be very hesitant to use that same system to provide locations for explosive drone use.
The cops will find some other acceptable excuse. I wasn't that long ago that a cop choked an unarmed man to death as three of his buddies looked on while responding to a call about a counterfeit $20 bill.I get that concern but why would a cop not be less likely to use the robots to kill if they obviously, won't fear for their lives wile operating it?