Maybe the police should focus on responding to noise complaints in a timely way instead of engaging in yet more surveillance? When I lived in NYC every noise complaint took at least 12 hours to get a police response. Sometimes they wouldn't come until days later.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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Pigs don't need drones to follow up on noise complaints. They need drones to know which parties have black people in attendance so they'll know which noise complaints to take seriously.
Reminder that the NY police department is the only municipal police department in the world with detachments in foreign countries. To protect New York, of course!
When pigs fly.......
Looks like we all got a bunch of shit to do now.
This is an S-tier joke
Where does it end? Soon enough they’ll be using those wifi cameras that see through walls just to check up on noise complaints from a neighbor.
Since it's not inside a home, apparently they can get away with it:
I wonder if you could file a complaint with the FAA?
Sadly, law enforcement usually gets BVLOS waivers (exemption to Line-Of-Sight rules) very easily, and most yards can easily be surveilled from Class G airspace...
And can they operate over people/roads too?
Roads, yes. People, it depends but generally no.
A good cell phone jammer, I would think, would stop them being able to control it. Doubt it would crash, though, it'd probably hover till either the battery died or they show up to investigate.
Unfortunately you can't shoot it. If it's low enough, you might be able to use another drone to snag it with a net or hit it with a strong water gun, then leave it out on the sidewalk, wet and broken, for them to come get.
The cops were foiled by patio coverings. Drats. All that money spent and simply putting up sheets over your backyard would keep your privacy. Make sure your music is loud too in case they're capturing sound.
Or let them capture stuff like "the fitness requirements of our police force are a national shame."
This is fascist bullshit. We should have something to knock every one of them out of the sky and smash them to a billion pieces.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
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.
The move was announced during a security briefing focused on J’ouvert, an annual Caribbean festival marking the end of slavery that brings thousands of revelers and a heavy police presence to the streets of Brooklyn.
But as the technology proliferates, privacy advocates say regulations have not kept up, opening the door to intrusive surveillance that would be illegal if conducted by a human police officer.
Cahn, the privacy advocate, said city officials should be more transparent with the public about how police are currently using drones, with clear guardrails that prevent surveillance overreach in the future.
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It's not illegal to laser pointer drones. Have everyone armed with laser pointers to light that fucker up.
Actually it is, it's treated the same as laser pointing an airliner.
What about a water hose?
That doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t risk harming a pilots eyes. I’m not sure I believe this would be illegal.