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the cost of capability without permission

The Robot Cop Arrested No One

Dublin, Ohio spent over $67,000 on a robot that patrolled a parking garage and produced zero arrests, tickets, or cases. Zero is the number that marks exactly where capability ends and permission begins. The machine could capture everyone and arrest no one, because an arrest is a thing only a human writ confers.

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