Feeling as though the city has been left behind on developing exciting and innovative new ways to kill criminals, officials with the San Francisco Police Department are asking the Board of Supervisors to reconsider its ban on use of lethal robots in law enforcement, NBC Bay Area reports.
“Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent or outweigh any other force option available to the SFPD,” the department wrote in its draft proposal to the board, smartly leaving out that their future lethal robot cops’ programming might be a little overly broad in its interpretations of what constitutes a “risk of loss of life.” Like if a future robo-patrol unit incinerates a junkie before he can die of an overdose from the syringe of super-fentanyl he’s carrying his pocket that would kind of technically fit the letter of the proposal. That’s the type of forward thinking law enforcement needs these days.