Date: September 17th, 2009

The robocop on the beat: Part 2, seen as one seeing

17 September, 2009 (10:14) | Crime, Housing, Innovations, Slums, Speculation, US News | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
As we saw in yesterday’s post, policing is more effective and more civilized if it is preventive, a role played by the cop on the beat since first sentries walked their posts.
 

Twirling a jaunty billy club
 
In earlier times, policing was preventive (discouraging crime) or even pre-emptive (rounding up [...]