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 The problem with the NYPD robot is design. It's goofy as fuck. You want to make a police robot effective, you make it intimidating. 

All you have to do is take a few off the shelf quad-coptor drones. Mount them high in the corners so they have full view of the area. Perched like falcons. Then every once in a while they take off, flash some lights and blow a siren and fly around for a minute. Then, if you really wanted to, you could incorporate some AI that would recognize and report a crime.

https://static.noagendasocial.com/media_attachments/files/111/176/988/552/394/012/original/2e68d6d071d70749.jpg 
 I like the drone idea... @6ba9e811 

... perched like little falcons, diving down to intimidate OFFENDERS.

Be like flies, buzz all around, attract attention, nip at their heels... just annoy the bad guys into exiting! 
 @6ba9e811 all that for some wheels and a raspberry pi 🤦‍♀️ 
 @6ba9e811 I'm looking forward to someone hacking one of these to endlessly scream "EXTERMINATE!" 
 @6ba9e811 everybody involved in making it look like that and not a Dalek should be fired.