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How much do you think it costs to send an armed officer in a squad car to knock on a door in response to a noise complaint? How much do you think it costs to se
by hazmazlaz 3y ago
How much do you think it costs to send an armed officer in a squad car to knock on a door in response to a noise complaint? How much do you think it costs to send a drone to observe a place in response to a noise complaint? A place which legally has no expectation of privacy by the way.
Consider also the fact that armed officers sometimes shoot and kill people. A camera drone completely avoids this potential outcome.
- woodruffw 3y agoThese are excellent reasons to disarm ordinary police, not to give our overarmed police drones. As noted in another thread: the drone can’t give out a ticket; it isn’t as if this eliminates the shoe-leather work that cops are still doing here (and the corresponding risk due to them being overarmed.) NY has a privacy law that enshrines a reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s backyard. But I haven’t made any argument around this: I don’t think we should be paying cops to fly drones around, regardless of whether or not it’s a civil liberties issue.