EBM Petrochem Stadium, Night City

Though already analyzed at length in its implementation of brutalist aesthetic design (see: "Light/weight", M. Linden), not enough discussion has revolved around the stadium's likewise "brutalist" security system. The use of technology common to the prison industrial complex in the facility's security measures is an open, though largely ignored, secret. In particular, the architects placed special emphasis on crowd control and riot de-escalation. The stadium's sections are divided by blast doors, which are kept open during events, but lowered during riots to quickly isolate small groups for easier pacification. However, in a controversial move, the designers granted full authority of all security measures to the system’s resident AI.

What does AI-regulated crowd control mean for judgment calls? Can it distinguish cyberpsychotic violence from that of self defense? Will people fleeing a riot be permitted to leave, or trapped inside with the firestarters? Considering the literal fortunes spent on the stadium’s construction and technological development therein, most experts do not anticipate any sort of critical system failure that could lead to disaster of that scale. Still, it appears rather obvious that this mega-monument to Nighthawks football was built not with the fans and players at heart, but the corporate stakeholders who financed it. They've long known how to entertain the masses; now, they know how to subjugate them.