San Francisco's police department wants to kill misbehaving city residents with robots

© 2022 Peter Free

 

04 December 2022

 

 

This will be good American-style fun

 

From San Francisco's Mission Local:

 

 

A policy proposal heading for Board of Supervisors approval next week would explicitly authorize San Francisco police to kill suspects using robots.

 

The new policy, which defines how the SFPD is allowed to use its military-style weapons, was put together by the police department.

 

“Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to SFPD.”

 

A version of this draft policy was unanimously accepted by the rules committee last week and will come before the full board on Nov. 29.

 

Advocates and lawyers who oppose the militarization of the police are less convinced.

 

“We are living in a dystopian future, where we debate whether the police may use robots to execute citizens without a trial, jury, or judge,” said Tifanei Moyer, senior staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

© 2022 Will Jarrett, SFPD authorized to kill suspects using robots in draft policy, Mission Local (22 November 2022)

 

 

The moral? — As I predicted in October 2021 . . .

 

Robot gun dogs will be coming to your neighborhood soon.

 

The United States is institutionalizing death-distributing cowardice at every level.

 

Dystopia is fun.

 

Die happy.