The corpos decide to demonstrate “urban pacification” techniques using robot police. Hilarity ensues.
The 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner was filming on the Warner Bros. lot behind [aspiring screenwriter] Neumeier’s office, and he unofficially joined the production to learn about filmmaking.[12][14][15] His work there gave him the idea for RoboCop: “I had this vision of a far-distant, Blade Runner–type world where there was an all-mechanical cop coming to a sense of real human intelligence”.[12][14] He spent the next few nights writing a 40-page outline.[12]
Neumeier… believed that Detroit’s declining automobile industry was due to increased bureaucracy. ED-209’s malfunction in the OCP boardroom was based on Neumeier’s office daydreams about a robot bursting into a meeting and killing everyone.[12][16][19] [Co-screenwriter] Miner described the film as “comic relief for a cynical time” during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, when economist “Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys ransacked the world…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop
[Visual effects team member Phil] Tippett developed preliminary sketches of ED-209 to budget for its development and hired [Craig] Davies to design the full-scale model and construct it with Paula Lucchesi.[5] … Davies was influenced by killer whales and a United States Air Force Corsair Jet. He approached the design with modern American aesthetics and corporate design policy that he believed prioritized looks over functionality, including excessive and impractical components. He did not add eyes because they would make ED-209 more sympathetic.[6]
This actually looks like an improvement in policing overall.
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Shooting an unarmed man isn’t any worse than what we have today and to be fair the guy actually had a gun and not a phone or something.
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More impressively, it shoots him dozens of times and every bullet connects with the intended target. Not even the window behind him breaks. Cops these days dump their magazines without any regard to the surroundings and hit bystanders or just lose most of the bullets somewhere down range.
This scene may not be dystopian after all.
Did he died?
One of the comedy podcasts that I listen to has a massively extended cut of this as the stinger to their Crime Watch segment.
