Another "What could possibly go wrong?"

[dave1918a2]

The way the LEOs are treated by the politicians, the Press, the gang-bangers, and social media, would You want to be a Cop under that scenario ???

 

[Rule3]

Oh heck, just send in the Social Workers!

 

[Rule3]

After the last hurricane we had drones flying all over. Only way to get and idea of what was going on. All the power was out so you could see them flying at night. Big firefly's!

Plus there were more helicopters then I have ever seen.

 

[venomballistics]

My town has it's regional airport sitting on a mountaintop just north of downtown, and 600 feet above the city ground level. It also hosts an Air National Guard base and an adjacent military jet fueling station. As a result, lots of air traffic flying in and out low over the main parts of downtown. Three hospitals also host heliports for the EMS air ambulances.

As a result, the FAA banned all drone use within several miles of the airport and hospitals. Permits for legitimate use take weeks to schedule and pass. And anyone caught flying a drone without a permit are tracked down and the drone confiscated. Egregious first offenders and any second offense is arrest, fines, and jail.

I'm happy with that.

As an AMA club officer and instructor, I'm not.
If you, or anyone else had any interest at all in model airplanes, getting into this legally is rather difficult.
FAA registration, T.R.U.S.T. certification, Airspace, FRIA's, and remote ID all await you.
All the while, we have to keep up with all the changes and keep current in all the FAA's latest bucket of gibberish.
What has it done to curtail the rogue punk checking out sunbathers? ... not a thing.
since he'll be unaffected, we'll get to tune in next week for another episode of FAA re authorization act gibberish.
At some point, and I suspect fairly soon, we, the RC community will be forced to snub you should you express interest. It'll be too difficult to bring you into compliance.

 

[pasound]

I'm not anti-drone by any means. They are fun to fly. We used one at work to get full views and great 4K vids of historic properties, and of the several music and arts festivals we hosted. What I am opposed to are idiots knowingly flying them in airline, military, and hospital flight paths. In my town, just too dangerous. There were close calls with the helicopters more than once. There are plenty of places to fly outside of the city, and local clubs take advantage of those.

 

[coltle6920]

Strange. I thought this thread was about law enforcement drones patrolling and responding to criminal activity.

As far as I know LEOs are not in the habit of ridiculing law abiding people not engaging in criminal activity.

BTW paranoia is the most common mental affliction in society.

1. Reread post #1...Doesn't say anything about patrolling but rather responding to possible nonemergency calls.

2. Having a chuckle at someone elses behavior is human nature. You don't have to "not be in the habit" of ridiculing anyone. If it happens once it can happen more than once. One shouldn't be so naive.

3. Paranoia is how the Left describes actual concern for some unwarranted action they are doing or about to do.

 

[alwslate]

1. Reread post #1...Doesn't say anything about patrolling but rather responding to possible nonemergency calls.

2. Having a chuckle at someone elses behavior is human nature. You don't have to "not be in the habit" of ridiculing anyone. If it happens once it can happen more than once. One shouldn't be so naive.

Hopefully you will never have to suffer the extreme humiliation of a few LEOs having a laugh around the water cooler over some behavior of yours seen from above by a drone. Oh the horror Although I don't know how you would ever find out about it.

 

[Dave686]

I was a cop decades ago and I wouldn’t want to be doing it today. Now you see another added problem…technology for technology’s sake. Technology is a good thing when properly deployed, but kids nowadays want to use it for everything instead of getting out of their chair and doing their job.

You can pay minimum wage for a kid that wants to run a drone for a PD. But you can’t hire a cop that doesn’t have a criminal background and wants to work the streets the way it should be done for minimum wage.