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Robots have been used for everything from greeting bank customers to grabbing a slice of pizza — and now they seem to be venturing further into law enforcement.
A six-hour police standoff in a Southern California desert ended on Sept. 8 when a robot was used by police to take away the rifle of an attempted murder suspect.
The special weapons team from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department made the call after the suspect, 52-year-old Ray B. Bunge, refused to surrender. He has since been charged with attempted murder, criminal threats, assault with a deadly weapon / firearm, robbery and felony vandalism.
During the standoff, Bunge was lying in a "dark open field" in the desert of Antelope Valley, California, when the robot stealthily, quietly snatched the gun sitting next to his feet, according to a Facebook post from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
Police had lost track of Bunge before using a helicopter and special weapons team to find him in a dirt area surrounded by shrubs and fence wiring. That's when they tried distracting Bunge and sending in the robot.
"He looked up and realized his gun was gone and he was exposed."
"While his attention was focused on the vehicles in front of him, the team deployed a robot from behind the suspect's position," the Facebook post explains.
The robot picked up the gun without Bunge noticing before pulling away the fence wiring that had been covering him. At that moment, Bunge finally gave up.
Well, that's a big improvement over sending in a robot with a suicide vest like they did in Dallas.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @05:07AM
No, no, no, we don't have "suspects" anymore. We have offenders, terrorists, or unlawful enemy combatants, but not suspects. We don't have time to suspect people! Criminals are criminals, the end.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @05:10AM
It's another fine day of nation-building
Let's have a parade
You can dance on the graves and the bones of their children
If you know what to say
And you know it's begun from the beat of the drum
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as we're watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
And it's a damn good day
For the heart and the mind
And the party's happening here
If you'll avert your gaze form the word on the sign
Let me whisper it in your ear
Cause the sign says "run"
Cause the sign says "run"
Cause the sign says "run"
Cause the sign says "run"
And you know it's begun from the crack of the guns
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as we're watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
Welcome to your wedding
"And we want peace"
"Yeah, we want peace"
"And we don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We only watch them beg."
And you know it's begun from the crack of the guns
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as we're watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
Welcome to your wedding
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 19 2016, @06:15AM
If he wasn't a bad guy, he would have kept his gun and shot the hostile robot.
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(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Monday September 19 2016, @06:19AM
The good guys get shot first, questions asked later. The robots will take care of that with a "sorry 'bout that" from the operator(s) and bosses.
(tong-in-cheek)
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Monday September 19 2016, @07:26AM
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 19 2016, @05:04PM
I am seriously confused by the idea that an armed suspect in a standoff with police would let a robot surprise him and disarm him considering the current tech in police robots and how noisy they generally are, which makes the thing a bit suspicious while being better than having him get shot from the air as could have happened if the cops had been pissed and wanted to go home, or just prevent me from contrasting with your short sentences; also, could someone clean up all those espresso cups which clutter my desk?
(Score: 2) by Hawkwind on Monday September 19 2016, @09:09PM