{"id":21581,"date":"2022-11-25T23:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T07:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2022-11-26T03:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T11:46:03","slug":"we-are-living-in-a-dystopian-future-san-francisco-police-introduce-policy-granting-robots-a-license-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/we-are-living-in-a-dystopian-future-san-francisco-police-introduce-policy-granting-robots-a-license-to-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Are Living In A Dystopian Future:\u2019 San Francisco Police Introduce Policy Granting Robots A License To Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p>San Francisco authorities proposed a new \u201cdystopian\u201d policy heading for approval next week that would license department robots to kill suspects who threaten the lives of citizens and police officers in the crime-ridden city.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) drafted the blueprint for officers to use its military-style weapons, which includes 17 remote-controlled robots available in its inventory that are typically used for defusing bombs or surveilling areas too difficult for authorities to access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available to SFPD,\u201d the policy reads.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal also authorizes authorities to use the robots for \u201ctraining and simulations, criminal apprehensions, critical incidents, exigent circumstances, executing a warrant or during suspicious device assessments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SFPD Officer Eve Laokwansathitaya told The Verge the department has always had the ability to use lethal force when a suspect threatens the lives of officers or members of the public after all other force options are unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-are-living-in-a-dystopian-future-san-francisco-police-introduce-policy-granting-robots-a-license-to-kill\">www.dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco authorities proposed a new \u201cdystopian\u201d policy heading for approval next week that would license department robots to kill suspects who threaten the lives of citizens and police officers in the crime-ridden city. San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) drafted the blueprint for officers to use its military-style weapons, which includes 17 remote-controlled robots available &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/we-are-living-in-a-dystopian-future-san-francisco-police-introduce-policy-granting-robots-a-license-to-kill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We Are Living In A Dystopian Future:\u2019 San Francisco Police Introduce Policy Granting Robots A License To Kill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5C5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21590,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions\/21590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}