NYPD to deploy drones to monitor backyard parties this holiday weekend, and privacy advocates...

[wiyosaya]

Perfectly legal in select cities... Like Chicago.

Just because people do it, does not make it legal. Besides, such select cities do not hold a lock on the phenomena.

 

[wiyosaya]

I doubt the NYPD have military-grade drones.

Think again. Where do you think that most cities get the equipment for their SWAT teams.

 

[axiomatic13]

I would not recommend the Police attempt this in Texas.

 

[scavengerspc]

I would not recommend the Police attempt this in Texas.

Ok brother, before you start giving another "God bless Texas" yawn fest, you should have known that Dallas is a pioneer using this tech, for this reason.

And Houston
And San Antonio
Let me know if you want a complete list

And it's always the same thing. "Only for very limited use." Until it isn't.

These drones are just a smaller, much more economical surveillance platform than the Helicopter.

3 types of people hate things like this. Criminals, the laughingly paranoid, and people with nothing better to do than complain from their couch.

I don't know which is worse.

 

[axiomatic13]

Ok brother, before you start giving another "God bless Texas" yawn fest, you should have known that Dallas is a pioneer using this tech, for this reason.

Friendly fire man! I am surrounded by idi0ts in my state that will shoot at them is what I meant.

 

[scavengerspc]

Friendly fire man! I am surrounded by idi0ts in my state that will shoot at them is what I meant.

You know I never thought of that, and that's a good point.

Even though my comments were meant to be light handed, I apologize to you sir.

 

[axiomatic13]

You know I never thought of that, and that's a good point.

Even though my comments were meant to be light handed, I apologize to you sir.

I would be the very last person to push "God Bless Texas." First, I am an atheist, second 25+ years of GOP rule has wrecked my state. Drone delivery did not work here because people were shooting at them.

 

[Bamda]

Taking bets on when the first one will be shot down.

Shooting at the police? Yea, have fun with that. LOL

 

[Nobino]

I would welcome this. You know you have to monitor feedum loving peoples who have problem of being a bit too much free.

 

[MakeMSGreatAgain]

Well the law is written as "what can be seen from the street". Using a drone to look into someone's back yard, if it cannot bee seen from the street, is illegal and requires a warrant.

Nonsense, any wavelength of laser can burn out any photonic sensor

Thermal cameras do not have a photonic sensor nor do they use a glass lens. A visible laser light would have no effect on it even if aimed directly at it. Now some thermal setups do have a visible light camera next to them, for direct image comparison and that would be affected, but not the thermal image itself.

 

[loki1944]

I doubt the NYPD have military-grade drones.

Military grade isn't always a synonym for good or best; a lot of military hardware is bottom dollar quality; for example the quality of even basic things like assault packs were far better prior to about 2008/9; gear after that is pretty crappy. 1999 Rucksack with well over a 100 road marches 6-25miles and 45-80lbs of weight, 2006 ACU Assault pack; 13 months of daily use in Iraq with up to 65 lbs stuffed into it; 2011 Afghanistan ruck sack with hardly any use and Assault pack with the same. Only the 1999 and 2006 quality survived; the garbage from 2008-11 era production fell apart like some cheap knockoff in a Shenzen market (that backpack died in short order as well). I know for a fact my personal pistol is way better quality than the service issue one I had in 2 combat deployments. Military procurement is not about quality; far from it, it is about bang for buck and staying inside budgetary limits. You only get to the quality level when there is a real war instead of something like counter-insurgency; like WW2 level innovation jump. So NYPD might actually be better off not using military hardware for their brave new world.