First to say it.

Its only a matter of time.

This might be closer... but the idea of a Taser drone copter is to me, quite disturbing. Sort of like, "Well, this doesn't shoot missiles and isn't lethal, so it's ok." blurring boundaries between the acceptable and something which (like regular tasers) will probably be abused as well as their lethal cousins.

Orwellian.

This is MORE orwellian than the NSA's activites?

Part and parcel.

Next it'll be a modification to load 5000 rounds of rapid fire 45 calibre shells to use as crowd dispersal in riot situations... then small nukes for overseas applications.

Who knows where it'll end.... maybe with an instant rain maker that turns raindrops into high velocity bullets.

Or better yet, spend the money to make universal health care a viable and ongoing concern for all....

One strategy empowers a select few (surveillance), one empowers everyone (universal health care)...

Look at this nation's history, and you know the owners are very covetous of their power.

I'm not sure tasers themselves have been a beneficial technological advance in the first place.  Before their deployment, with only lethal force as the alternative, officers had to approach situations with a modicum of reason and caution.  Now, the default response just seems to be "taser everyone involved, and sort it out later."

Old lady jaywalking and didn't hear you tell her to stop?  TASER THE B!^CH!

Yeah, the cops here in Oz have gotten taser happy on more than one occasion... and often quite unnecessarily.  Like the time 4 cops decided to arrest a mentally ill patient who had been ejected from a hospital but was unable to leave the grounds... thus he was 'trespassing'.  The cops handcuffed him and started to frogmarch him to one of their cars, but when he fell to the ground and was having violent convulsions all 4 cops tasered him repeatedly.  The man died as a result and 46 taser wounds were recorded by the state coroner, all of which were deemed unnecessary, yet the cops were never charged or even properly disciplined.  No, they were just transferred to another police district well out of the public eye and scrutiny.

That is just one of hundreds of cases of taser abuse where victims have either died or have suffered permanent injury, and the cases keep piling up, yet little or nothing is being done to charge or discipline the cops responsible... and I find it completely reprehensible that a cop who had sex with witnesses and prostitutes while on duty can be charged and jailed, but not cops who essentially committed murder,

Next thing you know, we will all be forced to have a chip inserted into our bodies, for ID , safety, and security reasons, of course.  And the chip includes a tasering application that can be remotely activated... for the public good, of course.   

Yup, 'law enforcement' becoming less and less accountable with technology that means they're not even at the scene when whoever for whatever is terminated by a drone, etc.

I'm gonna apply for the Mars colony thing.

It's not like the US is assassinating their own citizens (often).

Unless they're involved with one or more fundamentalist groups. 

Not even!  One only has to piss off the wrong cop/public official and you're toast.

Frankly, I think cops need to be more stringently tested in the academy to see if they're likely to take the power of the uniform/badge too far when fully fledged officers.... and if so they simply are not sworn in.

Sometimes the only difference between a cop and a violent criminal is the badge/uniform... and either way, violent cop or violent criminal, they need to be kept off the street for public safety.