Policing Police Robots

[de officiis]

Policing Police Robots

Elizabeth E. Joh - 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 516 (2016)

ABSTRACT

Just as they will change healthcare, manufacturing, and the military, robots have the potential to produce big changes in policing. We can expect that at least some robots used by the police in the future will be arti cially intelligent machines capable of using legitimate coercive force against human beings. Police robots may decrease dangers to police o cers by removing them from potentially volatile situations. Those suspected of crimes may also risk less injury if robots can assist the police in conducting safer detentions, arrests, and searches. At the same time, however, the use of robots introduces new questions about how the law and democratic norms should guide policing decisions—questions which have yet to be addressed in any systematic way. How we design, regulate, or even prohibit some uses of police robots requires a regulatory agenda now to address foreseeable problems of the future.

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[robepriority]

Knowledge of networking and programming will be worth more than an AK-47 with a drum magazine as the years go on.

[LVH2]

This sounds like the premise of a great Futurama joke.

[Penner]

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

It is almost like everyone has forgotten the lessons learned from Robocop II