Can we hack it and make it so all it does is take nut shots at the nypd?
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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Government and corporate creeps seeing dystopian sci-fi works: "What an excellent idea!"
The robot is almost as tall as the mayor — but at least three-times as wide around the waist
Body-shaming the robots is how the machine revolt begins.
Adams also proudly stated the cost-effectiveness of the robocop as compared to a human transit cop: The city is leasing the robot for $9 an hour.
“This is a good investment of taxpayer dollars,” he said. “This is below minimum wage, no bathroom breaks, no meal breaks.”
I'm genuinely surprised the union is ok with this.
That's because cop "unions" aren't real unions.
Real unions protect the employment of all their members while fighting for better wages and working conditions.
Cop "unions" defend criminal cops from the consequences of their actions, fight for impunity for all cop killers (killers who are cops) and lobby the government to fund those heinous activities.
Perhaps killer cops would have been a better phrase.
Both work. A cop killer can be killer of cops or a killer who happens to also be a cop. I like it over killer cop for two reasons
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it implies that the killer part is the essence and the cop part is external to that
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it replaces a term meant to set apart a category of killers for being worse because they kill cops (as if "blue lives matter" more than all others) with the many times more common killer that's worse for being a cop.
"The police robot, which is painted white, insisted that the mayor, who is black, made what is believed to be a 'gang sign' with his hand and aggressively placed it on its body. The mayor is now recovering in a nearby New York hospital after allegedly being shot 18 times by the police robot. Despite the entire event being caught in camera, the NYPD insists that the robot is innocent and did nothing wrong."
Seems legit
What a waste of tax payer money
So is this just a mobile camera maybe with a speaker from someone in a control room who can say, "stop that!".
So is our plan to use magnets or does someone have a better idea
420? Nice!
Wait, Robocop? Not nice!
Next month, they will debut the 840-pound ED-209
Here we go again….
I wonder how expensive these robots are.
For completely unrelated reasons of curiosity, I wonder how susceptible they would be to a sledgehammer.
Can't wait until someone pushes that onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train
When asked whether the robot was at risk of vandalism in New York City, the mayor strode over to it and gave it a few firm shoves. “Let's be clear, this is not a pushover. 420 pounds. This is New York tested,” he said.
Yeah. This thing is still going to find itself on the tracks.
That weighs less than an average medium car from a short Google search and I've seen videos of groups of people lifting cars
And one new york city mayor is not representative of the nyc population
Did... Did he just tell New Yorkers they aren't strong enough to do something?
The balls on that guy... I give it a week.
The press conference ended with a photo op for the mayor and the NYPD's latest recruit. The mayor made a half-heart shape with his hand and pressed it to the K5’s waterproof exterior. The robot did nothing.
Love this last line. Ultimately the robot can't do anything other than alert the police.