The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.
“If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference.
The plan drew immediate backlash from privacy and civil liberties advocates, raising questions about whether such drone use violated existing laws for police surveillance.
“It’s a troubling announcement and it flies in the face of the POST Act,” said Daniel Schwarz, a privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, referring to a 2020 city law that requires the NYPD to disclose its surveillance tactics. “Deploying drones in this way is a sci-fi inspired scenario.”
So the cops and fuck with your backyard party if you smoke a joint?
How would a drone know? Other than capacity and street violations, there’s nothing that a drone should realistically be able to identify.
I think the drone operators would do the identifying part
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Joint? Nah, hard drugs, fo sho (unless you are a billionaire).
What a waste of time and resources.
How they will distinguish cigaretes, joints and hard drugs?
Skin color
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Stfu. No.