As much as we should respect and support our police officers, who generally do a good job in keeping our cities and neighborhoods safe, it is important to remember that too wide a latitude can introduce unintended consequences. And unlimited power can bring with it abuses that we would never imagine.
New technology always introduces the opportunity for both benefits and abuses. So it is with the “epidemic” of drones, the multi-propeller, remote controlled, mini flying platforms that seem on the edge of truly impacting us in hundreds of ways.
They have already shown themselves to be an excellent tool for taking aerial photographs to map wildfires, help real estate agents, and monitor traffic, but they have also been used for illegal peeping and surveillance. They will soon be used for package delivery, which could free up highway traffic and congestion, but could also introduce new ways for unmanned delivery of things like illegal drugs or weapons.
And in one of the newest conundrums having to do with drones, police departments are reviewing how drones will be used, and possibly misused. Legislation in both South Carolina and Tennessee offers a look at how drone use might be applied, and it is important to look at the legislation both for what it says, and for what it does not say.
Drone misuse by police, page 2
America’s true face of terrorism,our own police.
They have allot to do with each other and they make perfect sense if you connect the dots
Big getting bigger centralized Government seeking to intrude more and more into our personal private lives and take more and more of our liberties away if you don’t see that then you are blind
Rand Paul has eluded to this extensively
I’m not a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist and a matter of fact my thoughts on it are quite mainstream Senators talk radio folks and countless other Conservatives like myself agree the Government is getting way to big and seeks to shred the Constitution and take away our Rights and Liberties
I don’t trust the Government or the Police anymore
I support them but I don’t trust them
Unchecked power is not good and I believe in the right to privacy that seems to be a thing of past it didn’t used to be
The Police having armed drones should not set well with anybody weather they have something to hide or not
And that’s no conspiracy
The NSA scandal was huge Edward Snowden blew the lid off of it and that’s why he is still in hiding in Russia today
Are you a Liberal Democrat Tammy because you sound just like one
Illegally on my property I have the right to shoot it down..
Police State just like the Nazis did in Germany, Ya that worked out well for every except the people who lived there !!!!
I can see this going south in a hurry. I live in the country. I don’t care who you are. Hover a drone over my place for more than 5 seconds it gets blown out of the sky.
Police/surveillance state much!
Armed ?????????????
Never underestimate a well-camouflaged good ol’ boy from Down-South.
Then you block the whole spectrum. If you create enough ‘noise’ you can block out anything.
Oh boy… That’s a tough one!