Timeline for Why would a country employ a robotic police force?
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| May 27, 2016 at 12:10 | comment | added | mxyzplk | The fully loaded (excluding training and gear) cost of a police officer in Chicago is $149,362/year. | |
| May 27, 2016 at 6:50 | comment | added | Pharap | @inappropriateCode Especially if they fold up neatly like a certain infamous cream-coloured battle droid. | |
| May 27, 2016 at 2:44 | comment | added | Brythan | DNA evidence only takes 90 minutes to process. The wait times are finding 90 minutes in a lab to do that processing. | |
| May 27, 2016 at 2:39 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 27, 2016 at 0:28 | comment | added | Criticize SE actions means ban | If you automate bomb disposal robots, terrorists will start making bombs designed to trick the bomb disposal robots, since the robots will be rather predictable (especially if they can get their hands on one somehow). | |
| May 26, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | Akshat Mahajan | You can't do DNA analysis on the spot. A single DNA sample takes months, and that's in lab settings. Fingerprint scanning is fairly valid, but I doubt it would lead to much reduction in the time taken to solve a case. Everything else is on the nose, however. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 19:06 | comment | added | Ethan | You talked about preventing physical damage to humans, but you may also want to mention psychological damage. PTSD could be severely reduced if we replaced humans with robots in military and emergency situations. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | wedstrom | @inappropriateCode I'm not so sure. If we had such portable and automated equipment, why couldn't an officer do the same? It's totaly portable and automated, remember! Just point and shoot (or whatever). It's like the the scene in Short Circuit where the robot blows up a tank with a laser. Everyone else goes "Wow, robots are so powerful!" and I went "That power system and laser setup are amazing, they should put them on tanks." Robots are awesome, it's just that they need to be justified because they can use the accessories better, cheaper etc. then existing options with the same gear. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 16:12 | vote | accept | TrEs-2b | ||
| May 26, 2016 at 15:12 | comment | added | AndreiROM | Don't forget that in a police state situation a robot's loyalty is unquestionable, whereas a human police officer might defect, or refuse orders. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 15:05 | comment | added | user20787 | I really like your point about robots being able to use specialist tools on the fly, like DNA analysis. Also the point about transport reminds me of the first star wars film with the small droids all over the place, and packed into an APC. Presumably one could also airdrop in hundreds of android police by helicopters or airplanes quickly and cheaply to rapidly respond to situations like riots. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 7:15 | history | answered | Brythan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |