Clonus Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 I was just thinking about laws a cyborg cop from the future might end up trying to enforce: Having twins without proper documentation to prove they aren't clones Selling tobacco products Piloting an internal combustion engine vehicle without a collector's license. Animal cruelty against slaughterhouses for killing live animals instead of using tissue cultures. Being a disease vector in public Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Holck Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? 6. hunting down remote airplanes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? 7. Excessive food consumption, using personal weight as conclusive proof of guilt. The preferred weight for humans is exactly 160 lbs. Anyone over 200 has obviously been hoarding food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawknight Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? I have'nt been hoarding, I've been storing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? In Kazei 5, cybercops could hunt rogue replicated humans, check for gray-market and black-market cyberware, enforce draconian copyright laws, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? "Do you have a license for that genetic code, sir?" All sorts of crazy laws get passed in the real world, and high technology is no defense against stupid and dangerous law making. Testosterone or Estrogen levels too high or low? You're emotionally unstable and more likely to commit crimes. Death-o-cution time. Carrying a genetic disorder? You're a danger to the species. Death-o-cution. Anti-corporate attitudes in your body language and voice patterns? You're a probable criminal. Death-o-cution. Looking at this officer funny? You should have run, meatbag. Not that it would have helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? Anything that was considered a crime in Mega-City 1 (Judge Dredd.) Also, don't forget "thought crime," where you can be arrested for thinking about committing a crime and/or on the idea that you might commit a crime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? It occurs to me that these laws would be unenforceable in this day and age, for no other reason than they haven't been passed yet. The cyber-cop is out of his jurisdiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? Unless time travel is known, or the Cybercop is an idiot / insane / poorly programed. He might not understand that he's out of his jurisdiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? It occurs to me that these laws would be unenforceable in this day and age' date=' for no other reason than they haven't been passed yet. The cyber-cop is out of his jurisdiction.[/quote'] how could he be MORE out of his jurisdiction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? It occurs to me that these laws would be unenforceable in this day and age' date=' for no other reason than they haven't been passed yet. The cyber-cop is out of his jurisdiction.[/quote'] Yes, but does his programming/training recognize the concept? Robocop was Robocop regardless of where he was -- his cyberbrain was "always on" even if he would have wandered away from New Detroit. A programmed being out of his own time would still follow his programming. The main difference is that the authorities would disapprove instead of supporting him, which would cause him to assume that those authorities were corrupt or even on the take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted September 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? Yes' date=' but does his programming/training recognize the concept? Robocop was Robocop regardless of where he was -- his cyberbrain was "always on" even if he would have wandered away from New Detroit. A programmed being out of his own time would still follow his programming. The main difference is that the authorities would disapprove instead of supporting him, which would cause him to assume that those authorities were corrupt or even on the take.[/quote'] That's right. Cybercop was a Robo-cop inspired character, and the set of laws she enforced were engraved in the computer half of her brain. It would have included geographical limitations on her jurisdiction, but her rebuilders apparently didn't anticipate her being abducted through time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Holck Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? sounds a bit like Lady Justice whom is programmed on Roman God Justice and was brought into the present from the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? I'm reminded of the Champions Universe character Nebula, a law-enforcement officer from a "Republic" in the Andromeda Galaxy. She's been so intensively conditioned to enforce the Republic's draconian code of laws that it doesn't occur to her to question her right or necessity to do so. Jurisdiction isn't an issue; she considers it her duty to show the backward, unenlightened Earth-people what's needed to uphold the law and ensure public safety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Re: Remember Cyber-Cop? If she ever realizes that only the living violate the law we're all in trouble.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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