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Usually the high stress situation is manufactured entirely or significantly heightened by the officers involved

• Spivak 4y ago
  Which is why I think I might be on board with this. The “police are professionals trained to keep their cool even in life threatening situations” boat sailed ages ago. So making it so police aren’t in the life threatening situation at all might be a win.
  • chimeracoder 4y ago
    > So making it so police aren’t in the life threatening situation at all might be a win. Cops routinely kill people even when there's no reasonable way to claim they were in a "life threatening situation". All this will do is make it easier for cops to kill people and evade accountability.
  • heavyset_go 4y ago
    Not being in life threatening situations hasn't stopped cops from killing people before. Robots are not going to solve the problem of people abusing the power they're given because they can. I'd argue that it would exacerbate it. I don't see anything good coming from turning shooting real people into a video game for cops.
  • cyberphobe 4y ago
    Police being in life threatening situations is a bullshit excuse. None of these killings have the police been in a life threatening situation. They’re just murderous thugs, we should stop buying them expensive toys and start locking them up when they commit crimes