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U.S. police rarely deploy deadly robots to confront suspects
Associated Press in enhancing and

By JANIE HAR and CLAUDIA LAUER bang grenades, assault rifles and armored developing Aruba’s
Associated Press vehicles, and seek approval from the pub-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The unabash- lic for their use. product
edly liberal city of San Francisco became So far, police in just two California cities —
the unlikely proponent of weaponized San Francisco and Oakland — have pub-
police robots last week after supervisors licly discussed the use of robots as part of
approved limited use of the remote-con- that process. Around the country, police
trolled devices, addressing head-on an have used robots over the past decade to
evolving technology that has become communicate with barricaded suspects,
more widely available even if it is rarely enter potentially dangerous spaces and,
deployed to confront suspects. in rare cases, for deadly force.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors vot- Dallas police became the first to kill a
ed 8-3 on Tuesday to permit police to use suspect with a robot in 2016, when they
robots armed with explosives in extreme used one to detonate explosives during a
situations where lives are at stake and standoff with a sniper who had killed five
no other alternative is available. The au- police officers and injured nine others.
thorization comes as police departments The recent San Francisco vote, has re-
across the U.S. face increasing scrutiny for newed a fierce debate sparked years
the use of militarized equipment and force ago over the ethics of using robots to kill a
amid a years-long reckoning on criminal suspect and the doors such policies might
justice. The vote was prompted by a new open.
California law requiring police to inventory Page 11
military-grade equipment such as flash- Continued on Page 2