[throwaway290]

Sure but I would feel weird with a camera up in the air unless I totally trust that it is up because of an ongoing crime. Can you trust that? What if the camera hangs around "just in case"? How can you check? Will be police department obligated to disclose this or will they have a legal excuse to neither confirm nor deny?

[harimau777]

Maybe one approach would be to make it illegal for the police to deploy them without a warrant, require the warrants to be public, and to stream the drone's location.

The idea being to allow independent observers to check that the police are following the rules.

[BigRedDog1669]

And just like all of the current 'independent review' bodies for police, they will be run by the police department.