San Francisco city leaders approve policy to allow police robots to use lethal force as a last-resort option.
National Pubic Radio reported the original draft of SFPD's policy was silent on robots. The draft policy responding to the law initially read:"Robots shall not be used as a use of force against any person." That line in the draft proposal was crossed out and returned with the revised draft policy.
In an email to NPR, SFPD said it"does not own or operate robots outfitted with lethal force options and the department has no plans to outfit robots with any type of firearm. … No policy can anticipate every conceivable situation or exceptional circumstance which officers may face. The SFPD must be prepared, and have the ability, to respond proportionally."
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman sits on the committee that drafted the policy for the potential use of a robot for lethal force. The most notable incident where a police department used a robot to neutralize a threat was in 2016 in Dallas. Police equipped a remote-controlled robot with a bomb to kill a sniper in an elevated parking structure.
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