NYPD will police Labor Day parties with surveillance drones
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NYPD once again acting like dystopian SciFi is aspirational rather than a warning.
Definitely. We've been in the early stages of the dystopic cyberpunk age for awhile now and it's definitely not fun. That being said, you know drone hacking is about to start becoming very common and I'm definitely here for it, heh.
NYPD giving me free moving target practice with my air rifle. Much appreciated!
Edit: sigh, i forgot this was the internet i need to put my /s.
Just make sure you can fire from an obsucued position like a bush you patriot 🫡
Make sure you're aware of the potential consequences before pulling the trigger.
18 U.S.C. § 31
18 U.S.C. § 32
I hope the prison sentence is worth it! Good luck in there.
I just keep wondering... are all cops bastards?
Yes.
No, but enough of them are that it’s really hard to tell.
They are all bastards by association.
If you read the article it seems like they're basically sending drones to deal with neighbor complaints about parties rather than having human cops do it. Which is... still dystopian, but they're not just flying drones around randomly to spy on everyone, they're doing it in cases where somebody has actually asked them to send a cop over (presumably to weed out the high % of those cases that are just some random old person complaining about a dozen people having a barbecue in their backyard).
The article actually says they send drones first to determine how many police officers they need to send. So they're essentially doing illegal drone recon without a warrant before dispatching their goons.
OK, but isn't this also going to mean fewer officers actually visiting places, and hence less risk of them showing up at a random doorstep and "he's got a gun"ing their way to shooting an innocent person?
(the overriding desire of every cop is to get away with doing less work; it's hard for me to imagine they won't take advantage of this to extend their donut-eating hours by deciding that the vast majority of cases do not require a follow-up)
Possibly. We'll have to wait and see what the empirical evidence shows some time down the line.
Regardless, this is setting an unnerving precedent, in my opinion. It further erodes the expectation of privacy when cops can just deploy drones that give a high degree of visibility from the sky (i.e. yards with privacy fences or private rooftops with privacy fences now no longer discourage police spying). I'm not sure the argument you're presenting will justify the cost to privacy in the long term.
My family lives in a small town of like 10k and my mom knows the police chief. This tiny ass police department apparently has a drone with a telescope lens capable of just looking into people's homes from far away
Birdshot baby
I really hope that several get shot down.
Well, they're branded and brought to you by NYPD, so I expect they'd have killer defense. Open fire on one, six other fly to your address and jointly open fire on your house. And the're officiers, like police docs are officers, so if you pour Elmer's Glue into its eyeballs you'd be charged with blinding an officer.
Is it illegal to shoot at drones yet?
Is it illegal to discharge firearms into the air? Yes. Very much. And it’s dangerous as those bullets need to go somewhere.
I know you’re joking, but still some asshole is going to be doing this and putting innocent people at harm.
Birdshot is pretty safe when it falls.
Awww but I wanna shoot guns at robot birds. Pretty please?. :-(
Has been since day one. It's just as illegal at shooting your neighbor's car.
It's way more illegal than that. Lol.
A drone is an aircraft. Shooting at it is just as illegal as shooting at a news copter or a passenger jet.
They’re going back to their roots