"I’m hoping you’re going to put a line in your story about how cost-efficient I am,” he continued. “This is below minimum wage. No bathroom breaks, no meal breaks. This is a good investment, so please make sure that’s added to the story, okay?” [the mayor said]
The mayor was enthusiastic about the cost-effectiveness of the robot. “I want you guys to be extremely creative in your writing style to say ‘Eric, job well done,’” he told reporters.
This guy is special, isn’t he…
The whole article basically lights it as a waste of money, since “[the police robot’s] effectiveness is unclear”, how there’s “no public evidence about actual crime reduction”, and how the “robot [needs] to be accompanied by a human officer at all times”, negating the need for the robot altogether.
The NYPD will do literally anything and everything they can to make sure cops don’t actually work. 
I’d buy that for a dollar!
“I cannot deactivate until you tell me you are satisfied with your police harassment.”
“Young African American teenager spotted, calling for backup”
You have 20 seconds to comply.
This thing should go out the same way digital doors did at Walgreens. In the trash.
Oh man. My old Walgreens had these and I begged the manager at my new store not to let them put them in. They still haven’t made their way over yet, maybe the company realized how absolutely idiotic they are.
The only reason they wanted them is because when someone wasn’t standing directly in front of them they would play full screen ads for whatever was (supposed to be) inside.
What’s a digital door
Door sized screens for food coolers: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freezer-screens/index.html
Eeww that sucks
They’re the worst. The Walgreens near me has them and if they’re not completely broken, the data on the front of them is entirely wrong. You have to stand there with the door open, wasting electricity, just to figure out which drink you want.
This sounds even more frustrating than digital menu boards that instead of just being digital to be able to update easily rotate screens quickly where you have to wait through multiple cycles to read it.
I think the glass doors on the refrigerated coolers that were electronic displays that showed you an ideal image of the drink or whatever was supposed to be inside, but you couldn’t see through them to see if there were any actually on the shelf.
So how long until people start advocating for the nonhuman, nonsentient robot over actual PoC? “Silicon lives matter”?
