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Maine is among the places where police have used robots over the past decade to communicate with barricaded suspects and to enter potentially dangerous spaces.

A South Carolina woman is accused of signing her child out of school and then breaking into four churches with the child.

The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved them for limited use. In doing so, the board addressed

The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the...

Around the country, police have used robots over the past decade to communicate with barricaded suspects, enter potentially dangerous spaces and, in rare cases, for deadly force.

San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said armed robots would be used only as a last resort

The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved them for limited use

The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved them for limited use. In doing so, the board addressed head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to confront suspects. The authorization comes as police departments across the U.S. face increasing scrutiny for the use of militarized equipment amid a years-long national reckoning on criminal justice. A...

Maine is among the places where police have used robots over the past decade to communicate with barricaded suspects and to enter potentially dangerous spaces.

Police in Maine have twiced used robots to subdue suspects in standoffs.