She is not NEARLY good looking enough to be that stupid!
Posted on 07/08/2016 5:10:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
When Dallas police used a bomb-carrying robot to kill a sniper, they also kicked off an ethical debate about technology’s use as a crime-fighting weapon.
In what appears to be an unprecedented tactic, police rigged a bomb-disposal robot to kill an armed suspect in the fatal shootings of five officers in Dallas. While there doesn’t appear to be any hard data on the subject, security experts and law enforcement officials said they couldn’t recall another time when police have deployed a robot with lethal intent. […]
“If lethally equipped robots can be used in this situation, when else can they be used?” says Elizabeth Joh, a University of California at Davis law professor who has followed U.S. law enforcement’s use of technology. “Extreme emergencies shouldn't define the scope of more ordinary situations where police may want to use robots that are capable of harm.” …
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There are way to many lawyers in this country with not much to do.
I want to see the video
Blown up or shot. What’s the difference?
Public funds paid for equipment we want to see the video
No debate of the ethics of killing cops in cold blood?
Next time there is a situation like this, Elizabeth Joh should personally carry the bomb and detonate it.
Killer robot or sniper...which is more “ethical”?
She is not NEARLY good looking enough to be that stupid!
And Osama too while we are at it.
A. Police have been using drones for years.
B. Police are authorized to use deadly force.
Some things are NOT in dispute LOL!
Still, it’s an interesting and worthwhile subject.
It would be unethical NOT to use a robot capable of taking out a heavily armed individual who intends to kill many more people and will not surrender. They should have had the robot slap the sumabiatch with a slab of bacon before blowing his sadass off to Hell.
What’s the dif between a police officer pulling a trigger or pushing a button to kill a perp? Maybe people have this warped sense of “fair play” and that the cop with the gun might miss, and it just isn’t fair that the bomb doesn’t. This is a non-issue, totally made up. In this case, its too bad they didn’t have a “stun” type of robot instead of a killer, it would have been valuable to get information from this jerk before we gave him the needle.
"Explain to these fools it was not a robot."
ClockMed is working on one of his own design.
An alarm clock in a suitcase propelled by radio controlled toy monster trucks
Obama will invite him to the WH again
Agree. A total non-issue.
If it was a white person murdering blacks, these people would not even bat an eye about how he or she was neutralized.
The problem isn’t that the police used a robot.
The problem is that they set themselves up as judge, jury and executioner.
Who is the woman ?
There are way to many lawyers in this country with not much to do.
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Yes there are. Many of them are enablers of most our nation’s problems.
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