The police are training the first wave of human officer replacements, the plan is progressing swiftly, even if the IR tech is old and mostly established practice.
"That guy on the left, no facemask, is looking a little hot, and i don't mean pretty. Lock em down sarge!"
"Okay Lt. but the union guarantees hazard pay!"
Laws for peering through walls and into backyards have been fought about and established for some time now involving police use of Thermal Imaging, though the imaging does get much more precise now. But when robots with advanced AI do it, then we will know true invasiveness, and the police testing this tech will be the first to get 24/7 surveilled.
It's a two-edged sword. It makes sense to handle it this way, to protect their deputies.
Technically, though, the police could be more draconian and take pictures and issue tickets because, hey, these kids are (1) breaking the law and (2) endangering everybody they come in contact with.
The article heavily leans toward not doing anything at all rather than deploy drones or risk deputies' lives for people who wilfully won't follow orders. So, the wrong-doers have rights. But, so do the people they will assault with a deadly weapon, the coronavirus, should they be infected and it transfers.
Maybe the gov't should up the ante by allowing everyone on the beach, and then everyone who contracts the coronavirus and transfers it to someone else should be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Maybe that level of threat would compel people to social distance until this mess burns itself out.
There are worse things than drones sending messages to you. BUT, with saying all that, there needs to be something in place that drones will not be used except in a similar type of emergency and only for what it is doing now. Just conveying a message. What would happen if loudspeakers were put along the beach and did the same thing, convey a message? Would it have the same creep affect?
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The police are training the first wave of human officer replacements, the plan is progressing swiftly, even if the IR tech is old and mostly established practice.
"That guy on the left, no facemask, is looking a little hot, and i don't mean pretty. Lock em down sarge!"
"Okay Lt. but the union guarantees hazard pay!"
Laws for peering through walls and into backyards have been fought about and established for some time now involving police use of Thermal Imaging, though the imaging does get much more precise now. But when robots with advanced AI do it, then we will know true invasiveness, and the police testing this tech will be the first to get 24/7 surveilled.
It's a two-edged sword. It makes sense to handle it this way, to protect their deputies.
Technically, though, the police could be more draconian and take pictures and issue tickets because, hey, these kids are (1) breaking the law and (2) endangering everybody they come in contact with.
The article heavily leans toward not doing anything at all rather than deploy drones or risk deputies' lives for people who wilfully won't follow orders. So, the wrong-doers have rights. But, so do the people they will assault with a deadly weapon, the coronavirus, should they be infected and it transfers.
Maybe the gov't should up the ante by allowing everyone on the beach, and then everyone who contracts the coronavirus and transfers it to someone else should be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Maybe that level of threat would compel people to social distance until this mess burns itself out.
There are worse things than drones sending messages to you. BUT, with saying all that, there needs to be something in place that drones will not be used except in a similar type of emergency and only for what it is doing now. Just conveying a message. What would happen if loudspeakers were put along the beach and did the same thing, convey a message? Would it have the same creep affect?