They feel like there is less crime, because they have bought into security theater.

Last time, it didn't go so well for the robot:

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/17/15986042/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-water

“He has a license plate reader, he has facial recognition, he can read IP addresses from your cell phone or watch,” Amanda Bellemere, owner of Brywood Shopping Centre, explained. “He knows who you are basically.”

Marshall...?

WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL IT MALL-E?!

WHY?!

Marshall conquer and destroy! Exterminate!

"Dead or alive, you're coming with me."

Show your receipt you have 10 seconds to comply

"very better"? Anyway...

It won't last. Right now it's new, but ultimately it will become an actual initiation ritual to knock it down, or perhaps a harder version to steal something out from under its nose. It doesn't know who you are if you wear a mask (or stay out of its line or sight) and don't carry something broadcasting your IP.

This looks like just security theater.

Meanwhile, aren't cameras cheap? If let's say hundreds of those were sprinkled around, maybe behind an opaque substance so you could also put up 10-100x more of them but 9/10ths being fake, and you swap them around occasionally, that might not be perfect either but could work better than a robot offering a nice, easy, fun target to play with, just like in video games. (Nobody ever enjoys video games these days though, do they?)

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

TBH, I trust a security robot way, way more than I trust the KCPD at this point.

Our police are state-controlled and don't seem to give a damn about locals, and they've shown themselves to be completely inept to stem the stream of burglaries and theft that's occurred in the city over the past year. My own car got ripped off less than a year ago, forcing me to have to replace a window, but that's small potatoes compared to what many others are experiencing.

I live in Kansas City. Somebody is going to do a drive by on that thing.

They've seen the YouTube videos of Robocop and didn't want to get shot in their dicks.

The robot can spend 23 hours a day monitoring the parking lot from all angles

Do they get a mandated one-hour break or something?

Thank you for your cooperation.

Remember the movie "Chopping Mall" ?

The headline makes it sound like people are scared to report crimes because they don’t want to talk to RoboMallCop.