These 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; i

These 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.