[pesus]

If the drones are "providing information" to the police, it's only a matter of time before their AI hallucinates something that gets someone killed. We've already seen AI gun detection services that report things like Doritos bags as guns.

[grimcompanion]

OTOH it will provide more surveillance of the police themselves. Humans are also bad at gun detection (sometimes willfully so) and this provides another check.

[FireBeyond]

Watch for Flock footage to be "unavailable"/"deleted"/"corrupt" just as often as bodycam footage is.

[IAmBroom]

Not as often; it creates friction and requires cooperation from others (or an officer with unusual skill and access, presumably).

It will absolutely happen in corrupt departments, or those involving an officer with those skills and access. But data that is uploaded is infinitely harder to erase than simply turning off the camera in the first place.

[gretch]

That's right. And also just like the missing epstein footage.

Because it's a social problem, not a technology problem.

At the same time, just because these instances of "missing" tape happen, does not mean that body cams and jailhouse CCTV are useless. We would not take those away. Likewise for the future drone footage

[islandfox100]

The categorization of the problem isn't an excuse to propogate and intensify the problem. The tech should not be used until the problem is resolved.

[chaps]

How exactly does this provide more surveillance of the police themselves? I've done about ten FOIA lawsuits against police departments and it's laughable to think that they won't just lock footage away and exempt it from the public's eyes. Probably through a trade secret exemption because private companies are involved.