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The specifics of this situation matter less than the precedent it has set for future police actions around the world. From now on, when faced with difficult or
by cs702 10y ago
The specifics of this situation matter less than the precedent it has set for future police actions around the world.
From now on, when faced with difficult or dangerous situations, police forces everywhere will at least consider using robots, because "Dallas police did it, and there was neither public outrage nor political fallout."
- jj12 10y agoAnd following from that I guess robots doing traffic stops in high risk black neighborhoods. The only positive I can think of, from this escalating into totally unimaginable madness is the most cities dont have the budget for all this sci-fi shit. I can't even believe Dallas had a bomb placing robot lying around.
- afarrell 10y ago> I can't even believe Dallas had a bomb placing robot lying around. That isn't uncommon actually. One common approach to handling potential unexploded ordinance is to evacuate the area and have a controlled detonation nearby. If you hear one boom, it was nothing. If you hear two booms, it was a bomb. Robots are often used for this. Source: This is coming from my memory as part of MIT's Community Emergency Response Team back in 2012 & 2013. We didn't receive EOD training of course. We just did first aid training and crowd control at a few events, but we also go to sit in on discussions of EOD procedures and a tabletop excercise of an active shooter scenario.
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoNot to mention that there are police departments in the Dallas area which have drones.