San Francisco's police chief is lauding the decision this week by the city's Board of Supervisors to approve the police use of lethal force by remote-controlled robots.
Vocal opposition to allowing the SFPD to use deadly force with remote-controlled robots in certain circumstances grew Monday ahead of a second San Francisco Board of Supervisors vote on the matter.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Activists are calling for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to turn down a plan that could make the use of deadly force robots in San Francisco a reality in select, limited situations. They say the "killer robots" have no place in San Francisco.
The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to …
San Francisco's board of supervisors is slated to vote a second time on a policy that would permit using robots as a "deadly force option" in limited scenarios.
Opponents of the proposed policy said it could lead to more police violence. The Police Department, however, said the policy would allow robots to use deadly force only in extreme situations.
San Francisco supervisors have voted to put the brakes on a controversial policy to let police use robots for deadly force. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to ban such use
By Taylor Romine and Aya Elamroussi, CNN San Francisco officials voted Tuesday against a controversial measure that would have allowed police to deploy robots to use lethal force in extreme situations, reversing course after public outcry against the policy.
Officials in San Francisco have reversed a controversial policy that would have permitted the San Francisco Police Department to utilize robots equipped for deadly force in certain situations.
San Francisco supervisors have put the brakes on a controversial policy to let police use robots for deadly force, reversing last week's vote and sending the issue back for discussion.
San Francisco had been considering a policy to allow police robots to use deadly force in certain extreme cases. The Board of Supervisors sent the issue back to a committee for further discussion.
During the second of two required votes before a policy can be sent to the mayor's office for final approval, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-to-3 to explicitly ban the use of lethal force by police robots in the city..
On Monday, we discussed the reportedly controversial decision by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to allow the SFPD to use robots capable of employing deadly force. Such usage would only be allo...
The Board of Supervisors had voted last week to allow the use of robots for deadly force in extreme circumstances, a decision that was met with fierce pushback.
