@eff

Maybe it is just the thinking of a simpleton (me), but it seems that if a robot can be armed with a lethal weapon, for the purpose of “neutralizing” a “bad actor” without putting police officer’s lives at risk, couldn’t that same robot be outfitted with a less than lethal capability, ensuring that the “bad actor” is at least given something that resembles a fair trial before being executed?

I know this is probably a really complex issue that has lots of moving parts and can’t be solved easily…. It just seems that giving cops access to terminator robots while they already have a very poor track record of making split-second judgement calls is a really bad idea, and it’s hard to imagine anyone outside of the police unions supporting this.