SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations -- following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement.
Technically they’ve allowed it for some time, but only this last year did someone point out that it could be interpreted this way. It shouldn’t be there at all (and to date it hasn’t been used in this fashion), but I also suspect this will get changed in a year or two, knowing the climate in SF.