Color to Stop Crime), Have We Reached Peak Wokeness?
When robot dogs are considered racist, there’s no hope for inanimate objects from the woke mob. [AOC slams NYPD’s $75,000 robotic police dog named Digidog as racist – saying it prowls the streets only in low-income communities of color, Daily Mail, March 1, 2021]:
AOC slams NYPD’s $75,000 robotic police dog named Digidog as racist – saying it prowls the streets only in low-income communities of color
- Democratic firebrand AOC blasted the police department’s four-legged ‘Digidog’ in a succession of Thursday tweets after it was deployed in the Bronx
- Ocasio-Cortez appeared to accuse the NYPD of racism for deploying the device for ‘testing on low-income communities of color with under-resourced schools’
- She also argued that police funding that allows for new technology like the Digidog would have better served if it had been allotted to education or housing
- Digidog, which was designed by Boston Dynamics and has a starting price of around $75,000, joined the NYPD last year and was used in a call Tuesday
- Other critics have warned that empowering a robot to do police work could have implications for bias, mobile surveillance, hacking and privacy
- But ex-officers say the robot has ‘tremendous potential’ to help limit fatalities and injuries during hostage situations and other high-stakes calls
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has denounced the NYPD’s new crime-fighting robot dog, appearing to accuse the department of racism for deploying the device for testing in only low-income communities of color.
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