The American Civil Liberties Union seems to be against making policing safer.
Source: Was using the Dallas robot bomb legal? – The Washington Post.
Police are workers with the same right of any other worker not only to go home to their families safely and uninjured at the end of the day, they have the same right under the common law to defend their lives and the lives of others with reasonable force.
Whether there is a deadly threat to police, they are lawfully entitled to defend their own lives and those of others with deadly force. If the police reasonably believe that someone poses an imminent danger of death to others, and that killing him is necessary to prevent that danger, they can try to kill him.
Armed criminals can always lay down their arms and surrender. I am all for technologies that make policing safer and therefore the rest of us safer.
Despite the media hype, surprisingly few people are shot by police who are unarmed and not resisting. The Washington Post estimated that less than 5% of police killings are in any way suspicious.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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