San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to pause a move by law enforcement agencies to use police robots for deadly force.
San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to pause a move by law enforcement agencies to use robots for deadly force.
Instead of granting final authorization to the policy in the second of two required votes, the Board of Supervisors reversed course and voted 8-3 to explicitly prohibit police from using remote-controlled robots with lethal force, theThe matter has now been sent back to a committee for further discussion and could vote in the future to let police use robots in a lethal manner in limited cases.
“The people of San Francisco have spoken loud and clear: There is no place for killer police robots in our city,” he said in a statement after the vote. “We should be working on ways to decrease the use of force by local law enforcement, not giving them new tools to kill people.” Some San Francisco officials wanted to proceed with allowing robots to use deadly force in certain cases, arguing nothing substantive had changed to warrant a reversal. But the vote to advance the broader police equipment policy — including the ban on lethal robots — passed unanimously.
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