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i have a hard time understanding how the police could/would help. "what did the perpetrator look like" "well. it was hovering and had a camera and just hung ou
by swasheck 11y ago
i have a hard time understanding how the police could/would help.
"what did the perpetrator look like"
"well. it was hovering and had a camera and just hung out in my backyard. i asked it to leave but it didnt."
so then do the police launch a full-scale invasive search of the neighborhood to find evidence of a drone owner? then we have two problems --- we have government overreach or we have unbridled menacing and trespassing, unless i'm failing to see a mediating position.
- jameshart 11y agoAh - I think you just gave me the insight I had been missing into why America seems to have issues trusting the police, and consider self-help as a necessary supplement to calling the cops. You think of them as an active preventive measure - they have to get to the scene of the crime and actively stop it. A more useful police function is to investigate and prosecute offences after the fact. If you know you won't get away with doing something, you'll be discouraged from doing it. In this case, what are the cops going to do? How about follow the drone, figure out who it belongs to, then go and have a word with them? Is 'conducting a criminal investigation' government overreach?