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Police can already keep occupants at bay with their fingers on the trigger of a gun while searching a house, if they want to. I see a taser-drone improving out
by oh_sigh 4y ago
Police can already keep occupants at bay with their fingers on the trigger of a gun while searching a house, if they want to.
I see a taser-drone improving outcomes rather than a slippery slope kind of thing. A lot of times when police are dealing with an unstable/violent subject 1) they don't want to shoot them, and 2) have to get close to them to taser them. But getting close to them gives them the opportunity to be dangerous towards the cops.
For example this guy, who was probably having a mental health crisis, just got killed because he threw molotov cocktails at cops: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/raleigh-police-body-cam-footage-man-molotov-cocktail-b2094304.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/rale...
If they had some kind of long range taser, he might still be alive.
- qgin 4y agoThat’s 100% true, but the tradeoff will likely be police not just using the taser in those instances, but a ton more that would have previously involved zero force involved or may not have even happened before the taser device made it so easy.