Incident 207: Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment
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Flush with CARES Act cash, the Honolulu Police Department has spent millions on what one officer called “toys.”
The Honolulu Police Department used $150,045 in federal funds intended to respond to the pandemic to acquire a robot dog named S…
Local police used $150,000 in COVID relief funds to purchase Boston Dynamics' four-legged robot, Spot.
Despite widespread public outrage at police departments’ use of Boston Dynamics' Spot robot, law enforcement agencies continue to look fo…
Homeless residents of a state-run tent city in Honolulu, Hawaii, are having their eyes scanned by a robotic police dog.
Police in the city say it's a safer way to check for symptoms of COVID-19.
But local civil rights advocates say the use …
Honolulu PD’s $150,000 Boston Dynamics robot dog is doing the hard work of taking temperatures at one of Hawaii’s several outdoor homeless shelters.
Despite pushback from the community, cops in Honolulu are using a $150,000 robot dog to tak…