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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Abolition of police and prisons@slrpnk.net · 4 days ago

NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City

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NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City

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Mayor says new surveillance bots are “only the beginning” of police force revamp.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45477118

It’s like RoboCop, except the robots are villains helping human villains villain more comprehensively.

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    Can’t wait to see the way New Yorkers are gonna fuck with those things.

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      A man in a grimy, rain-soaked Elmo costume will be riding one through Times Square

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      Put a sock on it’s head

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      It’s gonna end up on the subway tracks

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    Guaranteed less than one week before one of them comes back covered in graffiti.

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    These things are literally the reason that god gave us roving gangs of hooligan youths. Make us proud, hooligans.

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    If you don’t want them, have your quadcopter (anonymous, DIY, not registered and factory made) drop a net or release paint on them.

    If you really don’t like them, see if they are properly shielded with a microwave beam. (Prediction: they aren’t. Shielding something so articulated is very had.)

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    If Battle Bots taught me anything, the correct response to these are wedge robots.

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    God damn the amount of our tax dollars we just hand the cops so they can fucking pretend be superheroes, for the wealthy, is absurd.

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    How vulnerable are they to Star Wars AT-AT tactics (aka, rope/cables)?

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      Not much at all actually, the thing is more an r2 d2 then an at at , idk why they put the dog robot as the thumb nail but this is what it looks like.

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        I can’t see the pic for some reason. Are they using the same ones that “committed suicide” by “drowning” themselves in Washington DC?

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          Just looked it up, lol, yeah those ones

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      Cable nets? Pit traps?

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        The double swinging logs that smash it from each side is the way to go!

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          Aim is critical in such devices. Por que no los Tres?!?

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    That shit is gonna be fun to hack

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    Onto the tracks it goes.

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    Idk if I would call 400 pounds “hulking”. My motorcycle weighs more than that and I can pick it up fairly easily if I drop it on accident (which I have never done obviously).

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      (only discreetly)

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        Only in my driveway at 1mph…

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    Getting Code 8 part II feels.

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    EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! WE ARE THE DALEKS!

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Abolish is to flourish! Against the prison industrial complex and for transformative justice.

See Critical Resistance’s definitions below:

The Prison Industrial Complex

The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.

Through its reach and impact, the PIC helps and maintains the authority of people who get their power through racial, economic and other privileges. There are many ways this power is collected and maintained through the PIC, including creating mass media images that keep alive stereotypes of people of color, poor people, queer people, immigrants, youth, and other oppressed communities as criminal, delinquent, or deviant. This power is also maintained by earning huge profits for private companies that deal with prisons and police forces; helping earn political gains for “tough on crime” politicians; increasing the influence of prison guard and police unions; and eliminating social and political dissent by oppressed communities that make demands for self-determination and reorganization of power in the US.

Abolition

PIC abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.

From where we are now, sometimes we can’t really imagine what abolition is going to look like. Abolition isn’t just about getting rid of buildings full of cages. It’s also about undoing the society we live in because the PIC both feeds on and maintains oppression and inequalities through punishment, violence, and controls millions of people. Because the PIC is not an isolated system, abolition is a broad strategy. An abolitionist vision means that we must build models today that can represent how we want to live in the future. It means developing practical strategies for taking small steps that move us toward making our dreams real and that lead us all to believe that things really could be different. It means living this vision in our daily lives.

Abolition is both a practical organizing tool and a long-term goal.

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