Last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in favor of allowing the city’s police department to deploy robots equipped with a potential to kill, should a situation call for lethal force.
the Law Enforcement Support Office, which oversees the weapon transfers, more than seven billion dollars’ worth of equipment has been transferred to more than eight thousand police departments since the program began.
The reason that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was discussing the issue in the first place is that, last year, the state legislature passed Assembly Bill 481. The new law requires every police department in California to inventory its military arsenal and to develop a “use policy” for it, in collaboration with local legislators.
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