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California police department to deploy ‘RoboCop’ to monitor public areas
WQAD ^
| June 18, 2019
Posted on 06/18/2019 1:15:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Huntington Park Police Department is set to unveil "HP RoboCop," the latest tool in the force's arsenal that will keep an electronic eye on public areas, the city of Huntington Park announced in a news release.
The device is "an autonomous data machine that is meant to serve outdoors," that will use 360-degree HD video footage to "act as an extra set of eyes and monitor areas such as parks, city buildings and corridors where police might not have the time to consistently patrol," the release said.
The city released a video of HP RoboCop rolling down a sidewalk, making electronic sounds and at one point even saying, "Good day to you."
(Excerpt) Read more at wqad.com ...
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: huntingtonpark; robocop
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To: BenLurkin
So they spend the money on this boondoggle and wont hire more officers? tax payers $$$ at work...well not so much
To: eyeamok
A few tanks and PCs from the National Guard would be more effective.
Just add sense and political will.
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posted on
06/18/2019 2:03:41 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
To: BenLurkin
They need to give it a little trailer and a shovel to clean sidewalks.
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posted on
06/18/2019 2:13:42 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: mountainlion
The sanitation engineer version will follow along with a higher cost.
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posted on
06/18/2019 2:36:45 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
To: DownInFlames
Cobra’s Battle Android Troopers.
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posted on
06/18/2019 2:38:59 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
To: Nuke From Orbit
Robots don’t get outsized pensions
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posted on
06/18/2019 3:09:07 PM PDT
by
socalgop
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
06/18/2019 3:11:35 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: BenLurkin
Sure hope that ‘RoboCop’ can sweep up sh*t and drug paraphernalia that letter their streets......./s
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posted on
06/18/2019 3:14:59 PM PDT
by
cranked
To: BenLurkin
To: mountainlion
I was thinking that. Shades of Sheldon Cooper.
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posted on
06/18/2019 3:27:56 PM PDT
by
gogeo
(Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
To: BenLurkin
They had these in San Fransicko... the homeless just tipped them over and left them.
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posted on
06/18/2019 3:50:06 PM PDT
by
ro_dreaming
(Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
To: Larry Lucido
But Daleks fly now.
Oh goody.
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06/18/2019 3:52:20 PM PDT
by
ro_dreaming
(Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
To: BenLurkin
“latest tool in the force’s arsenal“
Interesting choice of words. Not sure the founding fathers meant for our domestic police force to build an “arsenal”.
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06/18/2019 5:48:44 PM PDT
by
walkingdead
(By the time you realize this is not worth reading, it will be too late....)
To: BenLurkin
That’s exactly what I thought.
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06/19/2019 5:55:32 AM PDT
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real saxophonist
(One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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