My question was inspired by that one on [robot police](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/42289/why-would-a-country-employ-a-robotic-police-force)

Imagine a world where police is mostly operated by robots, at least for the simple operations that does not need high-level decisions. Of course, like in any other worlds, there is a technology race between the warrants of public order and the criminals.

**How will criminals adapt and how will they use robots for their criminal activities?**

Will they use it mostly as weaponry? Use hacking robots? As a substitute ("go rob the bank")? Have they smarter ways to use robots, for exemple to commit new types of crimes that the robotic technology would allow?

For the sake of this question, robots need not to be humanoid, so drones apply. But are autonomous: they don't need human supervision, at least no more supervision than human police in our world. They can analyse a simple situation, and follow simple orders. For example, the effective operations of anti-riot force and SWAT-like units will be operated by robots, but the strategy will be decided by humans.