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What about police helicopters, which are out every night for hours at a time. They are very very loud and will wake you up from even a deep sleep.
by godmode2019 4y ago
What about police helicopters, which are out every night for hours at a time.
They are very very loud and will wake you up from even a deep sleep.
- Emma_Goldman 4y agoI've never heard a police helicopter at night in the country where I live (UK). I rarely see or hear them at all. Edit: After googling, it looks like there are about 2000 police helicopters in the US, but only 20 in the UK. As far as I can tell, there are the same number of police helicopters in LA as across the whole of the UK.
- godmode2019 4y agoPretty common in my country [Oceania], it stays out all night only going back for fuel so they supervise any calls they get, as it's already out.
- trumpablehump 4y agoThe US is about 40 times bigger than the UK, according to Wolfram Alpha.
- pjerem 4y ago"there are the same number of police helicopters in LA as across the whole of the UK"
- Emma_Goldman 4y agoPolice helicopters tend to be heavily concentrated in cities. A better metric might be population. The US population is only about 5 times bigger than that of the UK. It therefore has 20x more police helicopters per capita.
- hnbad 4y agoPolice helicopters are also more heavily used in poorer (and higher crime, but also more heavily policed in general, thus inflating crime statistics) areas of those cities.
- tekknik 4y agoThey’re primarily used to hunt for escapees, and to keep eyes on someone running or involved in a chase. Poor areas don’t have the resources to buy a police helicopter, that’s why they’re sometimes loaned to other departments in these situations. I have never seen or heard of one being deployed to control poor people.
- godmode2019 4y agoMy country doesn't have different departments. One department for the whole country / state. They make use of helicopters typically before a car arrives.