How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public

Re:How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public by gorgoiler on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:37PM (#21555129)

Police robots are the ultimate rejection of what the British police hold as the Peelian principles: that policing is done by consent, by all members of the public where no one is better than anyone else, and where some of those members of the public — uniformed police officers with warrant cards to facilitate arrest — happen to be salaried full time employees of the state that perform the duties every citizen should do.

But I’ve also never interacted with a Knightscope enforcement droid. Maybe they have a friendly green button on the front that you press to talk to a rational human?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

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Re:How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public by smabie on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:41PM (#21555154)

Like the CCTV cameras that infest London?

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Re:How Knightscope’s Security Robots Surveil the Public by gorgoiler on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:46PM (#21555184)

The municipal ones are indeed objectionable.

Most CCTV in the UK is privately owned though, which is where all the scaremongering “UK CCTV distopia!” statistics come from.

I don’t fear despotism from an isolated system in a corner shop.

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