[thefurdrake]

Wasn't it the NYPD that bitched and moaned about having public oversight of their drone project because they "couldn't do their jobs while being watched" or something? I swear that was a thing a few years ago but I can't find the quote due to the internet being spammed with numerous clones of this article.

Edit/addition: Thoughts of that aside, I am fundamentally okay with the idea of police orgs using drones for something like this. Conceptually. I see this as a preferred outcome to "Annoying bitchy neighbor whines about totally legal backyard party, event #8962376340" where an officer has to physically go to the party, it's some level of disruptive, it wastes the officer's time, it wastes the partygoers' time... As long as the police are willing to provide an itemized list of every drone deployed, available publicly, with exact GPS pathing on an easily-viewed map.

[NoZebra120vClip]

I'm fundamentally okay with this, as long as every drone is duly equipped with a payload of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", and deploys it at top volume, with noise cancellation for anything else that threatens to compete with the most sublime hit of 1987 and all time.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=TKFHVbEwTjaACHtf