[revolvingocelot]

>Much rather have a robot policing me than the local ex-quarterback who could just barely be bothered to finish his GED

Er, what? Who do you think is showing up shortly after the drone does? Who do you think the drone reports to?

[MilStdJunkie]

I think, ideally, no one needs to show up at all. Drone pulls your ID from the license/registration/facial analysis, fines you, then tells you to come in. You don't, then it then sits and waits for you at home/work/family, tells you to come in. Shuts down your ID, your cards, your cell, very possibly your car, and everything else, and bills your family . . until you come in.

Sure, it's dystopian as all hell, but unless cops get paid like actual officers, or you figure out a way to pay cops like dishwashers, I think it's a better option for low-density policing. I guess, these days, we can have local neighborhood volunteer police, which . . whelp . . is also dystopian but in a whole other new - or, rather, old-fashioned - direction.