Democrat controlled San Francisco Police wants to kill people with this...

[RestlessSoul]

This will be the first time military platforms will be dispatched on civilian baddies.


Like Waco when a tank was used on the Branch Davidians compound resulting in Timothy McVeigh blowing up the Oklahoma federal building in a revenge attack?

What sort of policing do you expect when you allow you allow your civilian population to amass military scale arsenals??

 

[Revoltingest]

A psychopath with a badge and joystick is going to have a lot of fun.

"Stop resisting my robot! I told you to stop resisting my robot!!!

Bang!

While that is indeed possible, robots still
offer the potential advantages I listed.

Psychopathy isn't the major problem
with cops. Instead, it's....
- Many are bullies & thugs.
- The culture of protecting each other
instead of civilians.
- The culture of fear & over-reaction

Robots wouldn't have those emotions &
motivations. Cops operating robots should
be, & can more easily be monitored on the job.
Of course, we must have civilian oversight
that cops, prosecutors, & judges can't evade.

 

[vulcanlogician]

In the summer of 2020, the mostly peaceful protests against the police; de-fund the police, most of the rioting was done in cities controlled by the Democrats. Common sense tells me Democrat run cities was where the problem was the worse; cause and affect. If ti had been worse in Republican cities that pot would have boiled over first and strongest.

It's not common sense to me that "Democrat run cities was where the problem was the worse." First off, even in deeply red states, cities are often majority democrat. So the thing is, "if X happens in a city, then it is likely to have happened in a 'Democratic controlled city.'"

I also don't like the term "Democratic controlled city." It makes it seem like the Democratic Party is some monolithic force that can control things down to the last detail. That's simply not the case. Every elected official works within certain parameters. Each office is limited by a balance of powers such that, under normal circumstances, the influence of the Democratic Party ought not be as manifold as you suggest it is.

The rank and file police, in all cities, are under a police chief who is under the mayor. Politics controls the police, and the backlash by the civilians was worse where Democrat politics controlled the cities and the police.

The Democrats took a U-turn after this cause and affect became obvious and hard to spin away; they were the source of the problem. Their coverup solution was to reduce the number of police and not prosecute real crimes, thereby lowering their bad crime statistics numbers on paper, but not in hard reality.

Can you be clearer in your logic here? Because I think it's a nonsequitur. Police are not only answerable to a mayor. (A mayor is not an "overlord" to whom the police must pledge their allegiance.) Police are answerable to the state and federal constitution as well, and must conform to many guidelines that have been in place for decades. A mayor may influence police activity, but they do not outright determine it.

The victims of crime have increased but on paper there are less criminals. One more example of trying to game the system instead of solving the problems. Robots is more about spending money and raising taxes to deal with the crime wave, they recently created, while blaming everyone but themselves. The Civilians need protest the Mayor and City Councils since the bulk stops there and not at the police. That was a misdirect to escape what was due to them. They keep getting elected based on misdirection.

I'm not convinced this is the case. You seem to be weaving a yarn here... instead of presenting concrete facts and showing how those facts support your conclusion.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Well that was fast. Using robots to kill suspects outright gas been approved.

San Francisco will allow police to deploy killer robots in certain situations

Now I wonder what thise certain situations entail of now? A Waco situation against an armed religious cult for example?

Also I'm wondering how soon they will eagerly hunt and execute their first bad guy with extreme prejudice that meets the definition of that certain situation?

Welcome to the continued militarization of police forces now with the authority to use robotic weapondry which includes the use of explosives like that time in Texas.

 

[Shaul]

The SF city council has rejected the concept.
San Francisco supervisors bar police robots from using deadly force for now