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resounding yes. With an armed drone/robot being in the line of perceived danger instead of a police the police looses that "split second decision" argument that has been letting them to kill all those people just because the shadow looked like a gun instead of a say giraffe.

You remove police from the harms ways - you remove the glorification and their high-caste "above the law" status, and their union wouldn't have such huge political power, nor public support for those state budget crushing humongous pensions.

Also with a robot shooting precisely there would be no need for that "stopping power" BS with illegal under Geneva hollow point bullets killing that violently that the police so likes to use (driving end result more toward death due to large blood loss and tremendous tissue damage inflicted by the hollow point - all unnecessary really). The robot(s) can just precisely disable arms and/or legs with much less severe wounds (like police in some other countries do) using smaller caliber or even just an electric shock or temporarily motor nerve blocking agent, sleeping chemicals, etc.

Also the robots will treat people equally, and thus big people getting the same law enforcement treatment as the rest of us little people may force the big people to adjust the law enforcement toward more reasonable approach. (i mean for example why the corporate IT support sucks so much? Well, what you would expect giving that the execs have their separate IT. Imagine if they had to use the same IT as rank-and-file and the IT couldn't tell whether it is an exec or regular Shmoe :)




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