A Furnace for the Icemen

After the police force of London's economic zone UK23 surrendered the streets in 2030, machete wielding gangs hacked their way through the remaining wage slaves and indiginous poor to create an urban desert of burnt out businesses and squats decorated with human skulls in the once glorious capital city of Greater London.

The police had colluded with the liberal media of the UK to try and psyop and social engineer changes in narrative through stories like the white swordsman who randomly hacked up some black school children. They plastered the white brutes face onto every media channel in the UK but didn't provide a name for the attacker, conveniently, when his name did surface it turned out he was Brazilian and not a white native of Britain at all! However by then most people had absorbed the visual story of an angelic black child viscously murdered by a callous white British psycho. Throw in an unarmed.copper.getting their hand cut off trying to heroically intervene and what you were left with was a smoke screen to hide the statistically proven races of the majority of knife attackers on any normal day in UK23. Add to this a rewrite of the cowardly reputation of the British police who had lost control of the streets of London and the fantasy became almost believable.

Khan, the Mayor, who on this day in 2030 most Londoner's believed to be a hologram controlled by the deep state in conjunction with the New World Government, and not even a real person anymore had accepted the mass resignation of the police and had started working with big business leaders like Musk and Bezos to wage war on the latest electoral fad: street crime.

To be fair the new approach to knife wielding thugs was indeed radical in nature,

armies of robo dogs with back mounted flame throwers and machine guns took to the streets under clouds of drones like a black whirring storm overhead.

Assailants were pinpointed and killed on the spot without trial whether they complied with the final orders or not. I suppose you could say it was too late by then and the only concern was preserving the criminal's flesh for the Royal Dog food Company. If the victim proved unruly he would be incinerated by flamethrower and his flesh would be utilized in jerky style dog chews. What was left of the taxpaying public who lived at the outer fringes of the city adored the spectacle of watching these wannabe rappers get barbecued in the form of 3D holograms beamed into their apartments by drone cam after work.

Even liberal journalists couldn't hand wring this annihilation project of criminals to a halt.

No one cared anymore about their fake bleating from ivory towers overseas.

"Fuck Journos lies just light up the night skies!"

Became a popular refrain around the streets where taxpaying Britons lived in 2030.

The kernel of consciousness that the criminal possessed at the time of capture and death was deemed worthless by government scientists and not seen as worth preserving even to work down the mines of hot planets!

Subversive and disruptive elements in society ,who could not be brought to heel, were now just walking dog food. No trial or moment of redemption was offered by those in command and as a result crime started to dwindle on the capital's streets as the robo dog.armies.seemed to relish hunting down meat for their organic forebears.

After the shock of this new approach to fighting crime on the streets had subsided slightly, the knife wielding gangs realized that their old methods for waging war against flesh and blood people were now outdated and redundant. New gangs like the Vietcong started to make headlines with their successful attacks on robodogs. By luring them into derelict buildings and decapitating them. They would then capture the back mounted weapons and rewire them, using shopping trolleys to mobilise the deadly weapons from the dogs arsenal

The next gen robo dog proved to be much smarter and resilient than the older models. Unlike before this new creation refused to become distracted by a child's screams in an abandoned house for example and now would call in a drone.strike to level the house without hesitation.

This final phasing out of any residual human style compassion and feeling proved deadly in the field. Add to this the robo dogs capacity to self repair and modify by using military satellites now in private ownership. The robo dog could now sever one or more incapacitated limbs and move as a biped if necessary, and could even move snakelike on it's belly with an added caterpillar track running down its lower abdomen.

The new gangs like the Vietcong and the Mujahedeen had to now resort to suicide vests of plastic explosive to stand a chance of taking out even one dog and drone.attack squad.