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Eye In The Sky? 60 U.S. Police Departments Have Asked For Drone Certification
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Are drones coming to a police department near you? Possibly.
Next thing you know, they’ll be pepper spraying you from 10,000 feet.
From Yahoo News:
Los Angeles (AFP) – Drones are increasingly making their mark in the arsenal of US police forces, operating in a legal gray area and sparking concerns of constant surveillance of civilians.
Since 2012, government agencies can use small drones — weighing less than 55 pounds, or 25 kilograms — under certain conditions and after obtaining a certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.
But the FAA, which is preparing small drone regulations, does not have authority on privacy protection and there is no specific framework on the issue on a national level.
Up to two dozen police forces are currently fully equipped with drones and trained to use them, including pioneers Grand Forks in North Dakota; Arlington, Texas; Mesa County, Colorado and the Utah Highway Patrol.
According to the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, at least 60 police forces across the country — from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama, North Little Rock, Arkansas, and Miami-Dade County — have asked for drone certification.
The FBI also uses drones for specific missions
Rights groups are not opposed to drones as such but rather are concerned that some law enforcement agencies will use them for constant surveillance of the population.
Silly conspiracy theorists. Your government loves you, and would never surreptitiously spy on you.
“Without proper regulation, drones equipped with facial recognition software, infrared technology and speakers capable of monitoring personal conversations would cause unprecedented invasions of our privacy rights,” the ACLU said.
“Tiny drones could go completely unnoticed while peering into the window of a home or place of worship.”
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, for one, is calling for a warrant before each police drone flight.
For related articles, see:
The FBI Has Been Using Drones Domestically Since 2006
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Just fucking wonderful....
Wouldn't this save the PD of large cities millions (a hole lot of $) of FRN's?
Park those helicopters.
What about the traffic helicopters.
They will raise our local taxes to buy drones to spy on us.
I see high powered laser sited crossbow sales skyrocketing
" If you want to keep my Legacy, you can keep my Legacy. "
~ Barry Hussein
you could make a lot of money selling emp's, laser guns, and electromagnetic jammers. you'll prolly even move right to the top of goldman sachs' kill list when ww3 breaks out
Terminator: "phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range".
Gun Store Owner: "hey, just what ya see pal"
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/XM99A_Phased_Plasma_Pulse_Rifle
They don't need them any more. Have you ever been on the highway where they say "Exit #7 6 miles away 7 minutes"? How do you think they know? Simple, they are reading your commuter EZPASS or whatever they call it where you are when you hit the sign and then reading it again when you get to those exits. They do a simple math problem and put up the average speed.
The thing is they KNOW when YOU have gone by even if they aren't billing you for it.
Or else you can just look at all of the people using the mobile app WAZE which sends your location and average speed back to google.
So traffic helicopters are so last century. Besides, they'd have to actually pay the pilot.
The hell with the handful of traffic helos...in PHX there must be 20 types of any helos per 10 square miles of Valley. They are like flies at all hours. Why must they fly over metro PHX at all hours of the night? They are a menace!
Can they spot incoming ICBMs.
50K drones in the sky by 2020? It's likely not an exaggeration. Skating at my local park in San Jo, CA a few months ago, I saw a po-po drone flying above and gave it the bird. Since then I'm sure I've seen it flying around at least a dozen times. The red and blue lights give it away...
Voters are gonna have to go after their budgets: Do they want drones or layoffs?
I'm serious. Fuck this militerization nonsense.
The entering wedge...
These are not Predator drones you morons -- they are the tiny little shits that hover silently around your bedroom window snapping video.
Yeah, cops with peeping rights. Fuck me.
You have not much to fear from a Predator. Seriously do you think the FAA (or even the Pentagon) are going to allow roided up cops to rocket people growing pot in their back yard? The fuck is the matter with you. Hell no.
But it's worse than that. Because every PD that wants one can have one these little fucks are going to be everywhere all night collecting nasty little videos. You and your wife. Your daughter. Backyard sunbathing. Family at dinner. With audio pickup they can sit outside the living room listening to you and your buddies discussing recipes for bankster. And if they don't like even three words of that conversation -- any three words in any order, they do the editing -- a SWAT team is in at the door in under 30 minutes and those jackasses don't knock and they shoot anyone they want to -- 98 times.
I bet you won't even be able to shoot these things, all you will be allowed to do is wave at them and smile.
We are all well truly fuxored.
Hell I might have to invent an EMP rifle now.
they might shoot you 98 times, but they'll only hit you the once, see.....
they're really accurate with fists tho
Now they will be able to watch people getting shot, knockout punched, etc in action, Live!
Why not enforce the laws we already have? Why not use that money to educate cops and also teach them how ot shoot and stay in shape.
steroids are quicker
How do you TEMPEST protect a drone anyway? Seems like a simple herf gun would ruin your average drone's day.
Lots of copper around the barrel and a rare earth projectile and it might just happen!
Re: "[D]o you think the FAA (or even the Pentagon) are going to allow roided up cops to rocket people growing pot in their back yard?... Hell no."
But of course this isn't the way it works. The way it works is first they are allowed to just monitor you. Then they are allowed to tear-gas rioters. Then they're allowed to send rockets into Waco-style compounds. Then they're allowed to assassinate "domestic terrorists". Eventually they just do whatever they want.
But of course you know this already. By the way, whose payroll are you on? NSA?
You KNOW the goal for these guys is to 'incidentally' find nude sunbathing hotties.
Sadly, it's going to take a major loss of life (drone takes down a commercial airplane) before this drone shit is reigned in.
I like skeet shooting.
Perfect drone deactivation device.
I don't need a shotgun for skeet shooting.
the alan parsons project was all over this shit
there is an obvious up and coming market for suitcase portable surface to air missiles
Fuck the police, they better be thinking more along the line of protecting their families while they are out playing super Hero's .
Doesn't look like any "friction" from the State Capitol(s) on the horizon here.
Nothing to see here folks. Now run along!
Delighted over the fact that POTUS went against his better judgement before being reelected in 2012 with those nettlesome provision(s) in the NDAA that allow him to be judge, jury and executioner if we are at war inside CONUS...
You remember? When he told us that it was unconstitutional because of those provision(s) and that he wouldn't be signing it into law... Then changed his mind and did it anyway December 31, 2011 while we were too busy ringing in the New Year instead of collectivvely convening in Washington with torches to unseat a sitting President and Congress for committing treason against the highest laws of the land!
Well at least you got a chance to see what he could do with a second term without impeachment?!!!
Just gonna leave this here for, er, research purposes.
http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb907234/killuav.htm
Back in the 70's, When we were kids, we'd meet out under the streetlights of a summers evening..the big thing was to watch the bats come out....a guy would put an avocado sized rock in a sock and toss it up there...legend was, bats would lock on with their radar, and get their claws tangled in the sock, and then a fellow could catch them! What a kid was supposed to do with a bat is not the point...
We tossed socks up there for years with none of the expected results, sure the bats locked on and swooped down, to our enjoyment, just no tangled claws or anything, but enough excitement to keep us kids occupied for hours...
You gotta think all the neighborhood fathers were in cahoots on this myth...knocking off some stinky twilight trim after a long day in the dirt factory....this was well before playstations were invented of course...
I said all that to say this...I bet a 3/4oz sinker with a trailing length of 17lb spider wire accurately tossed (or shot out of a wrist rocket) would bring down a drone! Wind them up like a mutherhubbard and crash out in the street to our merriment and delight!
A guy needs some twilight trim a couple times a Summer...the dirt factory is a bitch..
clade7. Our parents used to throw out 99 pennies into the yard and tell us if we found all 100, making a whole dollar they would take us for ice cream.
It must have been a neighborhood specific thing.
I can read your mind
I can read your mind
No you cant, because I have a tinfoil hat.
As MASTER OF UNIVERSE, and ultimate ruler of the universe, no unauthorized drone flights can occur without my authorization anywhere in the entire universe. Anyone caught breaching this Law is hereby subject to fines in excess of $1 Billion USD & imprisonment up to 1000 years for each second of flight time. All violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Furthermore, no violators can be sheltered by any country in the world, or universe. All violators must immediately turn themselves in to the appropriate authorities if they manufacture, distribute for sale, or disseminate drones to any police departments throughout the world or universe. All violators to these legislated laws are subject to property seizure and a forfeit of their rights under the Constitution of the lands they reside in.
signed.... MASTER OF UNIVERSE September 17th 2015
Are anti drone drones available in a store yet?
Drone dogfights. Cool. Strap yourself in, fire up your video screen and take aim!
Just bring 'em within range ...
This might not be all bad. With the influx of tens of thousands of "refugees" and illegals into the U.S., imagine the current street crime levels (including carjackings, home invasions, etc.) doubling or tripling. You might get a faster response time than from a depleted police force and additional evidence gathering.
Duck hunting with a shotgun will be fun.
thats some old stuff
"The incredible U.S. military spy drone that's so powerful it can see what type of phone you're carrying from 17,500ft "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2269563/The-U-S-militarys...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4-BY36-puA
Who ever wrote this piece is years behind the eight ball. Forget about the Police, even fish and wildlife management, have been using drones for some years now. I know personally of 2 boats being greeted at the dock by "the man" after being 20 miles plus off shore in Florida. The man went right to the cooler where a guy stowed an out of season Red Snapper.
The simple way to defeat drones is to do this: Go to your payroll office, claim the legal maximum number of exemptions, and discontinue filing tax returns.
Too serious,y'all. How about a musical interlude?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiie_zmSr8
Surely you can create a test to find out if you have drones. Drones are attracted to human activity. Drones can't arrest you, but they attract something that does.
Shooting at a drone will be a Human Rights violation - MuttHomoLogic