Skynet Laughs

Yesterday, we wrote about the Oak Brook PD deploying drones....drones that will be semi-autonomous at some point, responding to calls faster than actual officers in order to observe and video crime occurring until police arrive.

Someone with a far better memory than we have posted this story from 2016, by Cuck Goudie of all people. It's about the time former Dallas Chief and Chicago Supernintendo authorized the robotic execution of a five-time-cop-killer:

• When Dallas Police improvised the use of a remote control robot to blow up a shooter, it was heralded as a new frontier for law enforcement. While that may have been the first time a robot was sent in to stop and kill a criminal, the I-Team learned Tuesday night that Cook County's bomb squad has long had a similar attack plan in its playbook.

  [...] The robot delivered a pound of c-4 explosive close enough to the shooter to blow him up, a tactic that Sgt. Larry Drish, commander of the Cook County Sheriff's police bomb squad, always has available.

  "We have been practicing this sort of thing for years, we have the capability in our response trucks and in the response truck with the robots to immediately deploy explosives, with whatever technology we have to immediately end the threat," Drish said.

  Cook County's three robots are funded with Homeland Security money.

Honest to God, we have no idea how we missed this story at the time. There was even a Tribune article! Cook County with robots, armed with an anti-personnel device, with a plan in place, and practicing to use it? In fact, the robot has a bean bag gun, a Taser, and a shotgun barrel - usually used to disable/detonate a explosive, but which can be aimed and fired at a person.

And now Oak Brook is deploying a semi-autonomous drone. 

How soon until they give it a gun? Or maybe a grenade like those Ukrainian drones?