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Deterrents only work if they're enforceable. Will you be able to catch someone if they use a drone to take out a target? After watching what is going with the
by Teever 4y ago
Deterrents only work if they're enforceable. Will you be able to catch someone if they use a drone to take out a target?
After watching what is going with the use of consumer drones in Ukraine I've come to the conclusion that we will soon see this in America. People will start to fight back against corrupt law enforcement sooner or later.
Imagine the world where people in a community brutalized by law enforcement crowd source drone strikes to take out particularly menacing law enforcement officers after they've been let off with paid vacation for the nth time.
The police will quickly come to the determination that it's safer for their members to actually put through the legal system as offenders than walking free on the street.
- zardo 4y ago> The police will quickly come to the determination that it's safer for their members to actually put through the legal system as offenders than walking free on the street. I don't think that's how this scenario would turn out. Policing would just move explicitly to counter insurgency operations. Laws would change as necessary to give authorities whatever tools they need to do it.
- Teever 4y agoBut will that be sufficient to stop a technology like off the shelf drones? I have a feeling that we're about to find out.
- Tostino 4y agoDepends on how much rights those in power want to strip away in the name of "safety".
- Teever 4y agoIt's not so simple. If a parent vigilanted an incompetent cop in Uvalde and the political response was to enact the next patriot act people would lose their shit. Politicians can't be so overt about this kind of thing because American society is sitting on a powderkeg and pile of guns.