{"id":3265,"date":"2023-04-13T06:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/nyc-mayor-will-bow-to-anti-robot-dog-pressure"},"modified":"2023-04-13T06:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T06:17:28","slug":"nyc-mayor-will-bow-to-anti-robot-dog-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/nyc-mayor-will-bow-to-anti-robot-dog-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Will Bow To Anti-robot Dog Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So anyway, New York City police have acquired an unpopular handful of expensive robots. These robots were paid for with asset forfeiture funds, meaning money that NYPD collected without necessarily proving it was involved in a crime. RoboCop? No, RoboDog: Robotic dog rejoins New York police The city\u2019s first robot police dog was leased in 2020 by Adams\u2019 predecessor, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city\u2019s contract for the device was cut short after critics derided it as creepy and dystopian.Karen Matthews, April 12, 2023, apnews.com It gets worse. Robots deployed to assist New York City police \u2026 again This time, using asset forfeiture funds, the NYPD has spent $750,000 on two \u201cDigidogs.\u201d Built by Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics, the quadruped robot \u2014 also known as Spot \u2014 is incredibly versatile and can operate autonomously or semi-autonomously.Trevor Mogg, April 11, 2023, digitaltrends.com The post NYC Mayor Will Bow To Anti-robot Dog Pressure appeared first on Mason Pelt.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/nyc-mayor-will-bow-to-anti-robot-dog-pressure\/\">NYC Mayor Will Bow To Anti-robot Dog Pressure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So anyway, New York City police have acquired an unpopular handful of expensive robots. These robots were paid for with asset forfeiture funds, meaning money that NYPD collected without necessarily&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1549,300,1545,1546,1547,1548,140,12,295,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}