Posted on 12/06/2022 9:44:26 AM PST by John Semmens
In a bid to offset the baleful effects of allowing violent offenders to remain free on their own recognisance, Supervisors in San Francisco voted 8-3 to deploy robots authorized to use deadly force against suspected criminals.
Supervisor Connie Chan said she understood that "giving robots a license to kill, so to speak, sounds scary, but the alternative of having dangerous predators prowling our streets is also frightening. We think shifting some of the responsibility for public safety from human police officers to mechanical drones has its advantages."
"For one, we'll save money," Chan pointed out. "Robots don't draw salaries, require pensions, or get sick. While there still may be wrongful executions we believe that properly programmed robots will make fewer errors than humans would in similar circumstances. There will also be less room for accusations of racism when robots terminate suspected perps who resist arrest. There'll be no 'George Floyd scenarios for us to deal with."
San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Allison Maxie admitted that "the weaponry with which the robots will be equipped has not been nailed down. Some in the Department argue that Robots are capable of bearing heavier weapons than our human police force. They suggest that machine guns, guided missiles and poison gas could be utilized with greater effect than the typical pistols, clubs, grenade launchers, and bayonets most of our human officers carry."
Board President Shamann Walton voted against the proposal and predicted that "the potential for having robots run amok is worse than allowing criminals to prey on law-abiding citizens. Criminals are human beings. They eat. They sleep. They defecate in the streets. We are used to this. We'll never get used to being bossed around by robots lest we be killed by them."
Meanwhile, New York City is contemplating enacting an ordinance that would bar landlords from doing criminal background checks on prospective tenants. Mayor Eric Adams explained that "the problem with these background checks is that no landlord would want to rent an apartment to a criminal because he might use the apartment to sell drugs, rape other tenants, or discharge firearms inside the building. I say all these 'mights' don't outweigh every human's right to adequate housing at a fair price. This includes those humans who break the law."
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Just like skynet.
What a disaster. They programmed them to only kill brain dead people and for some strange reason most of the Democrats in the city have disappeared.
Humans stopped killing humans when skynet woke...
Hire illegal aliens and pay them peanuts to use deadly force.
Babalooey and Clyde the Robot Sheriff, with their fateful sidekick Quickdraw McGraw.
If there is anyplace I’d want to test killer robots out first, it would probably be San Francisco.
Eventually they will be killer robots.
Sacramento, and Lansing are a few I’d suggest.
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