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San Francisco Police Department wants to use robots to kill suspects [1]

['Mark Frauenfelder']

Date: 2022-11-23

The San Francisco Police Department delivered a policy proposal to the Board of Supervisors seeking authorization to use robots to kill suspects.

From Mission Local:

Peskin, chair of the committee, initially attempted to limit the SFPD's authority over the department's robots by inserting the sentence, "Robots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person."

The following week, the police struck out his suggestion with a thick red line.

It was replaced by language that codifies the department's authority to use lethal force via robots: "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 and outweigh any other force option available to SFPD."

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