An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station

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An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station::The NYPD is deploying a robot with four cameras to patrol the Times Square subway station.

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I’ll be waiting for the news of when it gets destroyed by someone.

All the things the cops would want this bot to do are prohibited by rules or by the potential for public outrage; no facial recognition, no offensive capabilities, it's basically just a camera drone. But that will change when the rules change, or when people stop paying attention... if this thing can avoid being trashed for more then ten minutes after it's deployed.

prohibited by the potential for public outrage

Give it a minute little frogs, this is them initially turning the burner on under the pot. It's gonna get warmer.

I bet if you break this thing you will get charged with assault on an officer

Uh, how is it better than a security camera? Can it dispense pepper spray or chase dudes up stairs?

Well, you see this uses up a far larger chunk of the pointlessly huge police budget. I'm sure they'll also figure out a way for it to kill people soon.

Patrolling in what way? Just being there is not a deterrent for a damn thing.

It has cameras and can follow people or raise alarm. It won't take long until someone shoves it onto train tracks, though.

The robot is gonna fall into a bad crowd soon after being deployed.

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Okay, so criminals are like "It saw us with our masks on. We have 10 minutes to get out of here...". Not a great deterrent.

Ya, my immediate though is this things going to get annihilated somehow quick. Throw on a hat and big sunglasses, push it into the tracks, bye bye.

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Robocop needs to ease up on the Robodonuts.

So a security camera on wheels

Maybe this ridiculous thing will eventually replace some of the worst or most useless human cops... in twenty years, after a few billion tax dollars, just before their union neuters the project and renders it virtually useless. Think of the possibilities!

Inb4 someone gets charged with assaulting an officer for drawing a dick on a robot

How long until it shoots the first black person? Place your bets now.

Are we even taking bets that don't say the word "month" in them?

Hmmm I wonder if anyone has ever hacked a police department by requesting all the bodycam footage and watching an authentication happen.

Can even security robots prevent anything?

Is it just fancy CCTV?

CCTV that can follow people, raise an alarm, and be shoved in front of an incoming train when it does. A cleaning robot would have been more useful.

Man it would be funny if someone just takes the thing and demands a Ransom...

Where does the NYPD keep getting these expensive but apparently useless robots?