By Tim Elfrink Thursday, Dec 9 2010
In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality.
The Miami-Dade Police Department is poised to become the first large metro force using drones in its aerial missions. The department finalized a deal to buy a drone called T-Hawk from defense firm Honeywell and officially applied for permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last month to begin flying it around the county.
What's not clear is how cops will sort out the raft of thorny privacy questions hovering around plans for using this powerful, new eye in the sky.
"At this point, it doesn't really matter if you're against this technology, because it's coming," says P. W. Singer, author of Wired for War and an expert on drones. "The precedent that is set in Miami could be huge."
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GR4U - I guess the cops will justify this by claiming that local gangs have acquired shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles!
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2 comments:
I don't think the police or the government in general justifies anything any more. They just do whatever it is and if you don't go along then you are investigated, marginalized, and pushed aside as and extremest.
This just goes to the federalization,and militarization of out civilan police departments.
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