I thought about that. And I ask, how so? A lot of the examples I could think of are about current law being applied to technology that not only did not exist wh

I thought about that. And I ask, how so? A lot of the examples I could think of are about current law being applied to technology that not only did not exist when the law was written but, in a lot of cases, the people writing the law could never have even imagined the tech/situations the law was being applied to now. I'm certainly not saying bad laws haven't been written to address tech and the police but I don't think that means we can't keep trying. As another poster said, I think the bigger question here isn't about whether or not a robot dog is doing this, it's why are the police handling health issues at a homeless shelter? Why aren't social/healthcare workers doing it? The article doesn't say so maybe the police just loaned them the dog to do this but that's not the impression I get from the article. Bottom line, I do get your pessimism, I generally share it these days. But I think it's also important to not just give in and hopefully we learn from past mistakes and can do better.