What is the point? They have to have had X number of hostages die in a year before we approve a remotely controlled robot?
Even if the number was zero, being able to remotely assess the situation before risking your own life and/or killing someone is nothing but a good thing.
Officers don't shoot people for funsies, despite the current prevailing narrative. We remove all risk to an officer's life, and we will get more peaceful solutions. In the event violence is required to resolve a situation without harming innocents, this is by far the safest way to do that.
Surely, the SFPD has provided this data to justify the lethal robots.
> If you think police commit too much violence, then you should celebrate this.
So the SFPD won't be carrying any guns? George Floyd wouldn't have died? Sounds great!