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Dennis · 10-13-2006, 08:16 AM

I wouldn't recommend a CI user to become a beat cop -- there's a real risk that in critical situations, your implant would run out of battery, or become separated from your head in a scuffle. You're trying to arrest or wrestle someone, the implant comes off, you can't hear important events happening.

The military doesn't allow their fighter pilots to have anything less than 20/20 vision -- you can't be fumbling around in the cockpit with glasses that have been knocked off or contacts that have popped out in your million dollar dogfighting plane.

I guess you could make the same argument for cops who wear glasses or contacts though -- if they get knocked off, are you going to be completely blind or at least still be able to see well enough to protect and serve?

There are other police jobs than a beat cop, though -- I have a deaf friend who has served in the CSI sections of a few different city police departments. Still a cop, just no handing out tickets

When CIs become self contained enough for the battery and forced removal risk to be minimal, I'll fully back CIs becoming policemen on the beat.

10-13-2006, 08:16 AM	#6 (permalink)
Dennis \/ It's a computer patch. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Death Star HQ Posts: 1,749	I wouldn't recommend a CI user to become a beat cop -- there's a real risk that in critical situations, your implant would run out of battery, or become separated from your head in a scuffle. You're trying to arrest or wrestle someone, the implant comes off, you can't hear important events happening. The military doesn't allow their fighter pilots to have anything less than 20/20 vision -- you can't be fumbling around in the cockpit with glasses that have been knocked off or contacts that have popped out in your million dollar dogfighting plane. I guess you could make the same argument for cops who wear glasses or contacts though -- if they get knocked off, are you going to be completely blind or at least still be able to see well enough to protect and serve? There are other police jobs than a beat cop, though -- I have a deaf friend who has served in the CSI sections of a few different city police departments. Still a cop, just no handing out tickets When CIs become self contained enough for the battery and forced removal risk to be minimal, I'll fully back CIs becoming policemen on the beat.