[ryandrake]

What made the police think they were “suspicious”? Anybody can be suspicious if you want to tail them for another reason. When you leave the judgement entirely to the person who gets to initiate the surveillance, then you are saying anyone can be surveilled.

[tim-tday]

Yes, that’s what police do. They drive around and use their judgment to match known criminal activity to behaviors they see around them. Hopefully instances of false positives like two kids going to play basketball get dropped without undue interruptions of the lives of people just going about their lives. (As happened in this case)

[nozzlegear]

> Yes, that’s what police do. They drive around and use their judgment to match known criminal activity to behaviors they see around them.

See also: racial profiling and Driving While Black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_while_black

[maxlybbert]

Police drive around in patrol cars. They don’t call judges every time they look at other cars. There may be problems with this system, but adding drones hasn’t created a new loophole.