Los Angeles considers funding for crime-fighting robot dogs

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[BenLurkin]

Critics, however, argue that Spot would instead be misused to monitor and target people in poor Black and brown communities.

[truthkeeper]

We’re living a science fiction novel over here, people.

[blackdog]

Algorithms for politically correct doubts is just too much even for La-La Land.

[ComputerGuy]

What if one comes up to you and lifts his leg?

[blackdog]

(Dogbots) not doubts.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Eh, we got enough hobos here in LA who do that, why not a robot

[Mark]

bkmk

[lee martell]

I think the average thug would quickly figure out how to disable this..thing so that it was no longer a threat or even a nusiance.

When all else fails, get a couple of large, solid rocks and have at Fido the Cop.

Make Fido climb up an electrified fence after having been lured into an enclosed area.

[Steely Tom]

A robot dog played a role in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

Main character Guy Montag has a nightmare in which he has been chased to exhaustion by a "robot hound" that knocks him down and paralyzes him with an anesthetic injection delivered by means of a needle in its mouth.

[frank ballenger]

Countermeasures include:
Scorpion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4xgXghAPh4

vicious dog robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-Ohl-NTNc

[I want the USA back]

And when the statistics are in and show that their “clients” are predominantly minority populations, they will be retired within two minutes.

[Reeses]

Most Demonrats are temporarily trapped in a type of robot several times per day: an elevator. A police access software upgrade and they are ready-made rat catch traps. "Take me to the lobby, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

[TChad]

Let’s give BarkGPT one of the perp’s socks to smell.

[BenLurkin]

[chopperk]

Funding for robotic dogs is like funding reparations, no money, all smoke and no fire.

[njslim]

What could go wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsulVXpgYg

[frank ballenger]

HAL....

True. They will excitedly report “Our young tech wizards have found a way to have the robot dogs totally controlled by AI and not subject to the failings of humans. Once unlashed they will be beyond out control-—and out of the reach of annoying lawsuits involving us.”

Like the final two episodes of Bones where the Jeffersonian is locked down. Bullet proof doors and walls. “These doors are shut by the computer system-—it was designed as a safety measure. Now we can’t get out before the bomb goes off.”

[NativeSon]

Sounds like a late 70’s tv series.

[clearcarbon]

"Los Angeles considers funding for crime-fighting robot dogs

Woof. Drop it! Dead or alive you are coming with me! Woof-woof!

[Organic Panic]

“You have illegally placed a recyclable item in the general rubbish bin. Report immediately for re-education. You have 20 seconds to comply.”