The Rise of the Robots: Technocapitalism and the Policing of Race

This article critically engages with the emergence of police robots in United States, arguing that their inevitable foray into everyday policing will fuel existing issues racial discrimination. Building on Luis Suarez-Villa’s (2009) conceptualization technocapitalism, I situate within a framework social domination thrives not only its connections to corporatism and militarism, but also technocapitalist conditions invariably exacerbate oppressive dynamics racist discriminatory policing. Although make work safer for officers (Sharkey 2008), contend they be used by as weaponized machines