Drone surveillance is beginning to increase across the United States, from coast to coast.
This extended Labor Day weekend saw New York City Police deploy drones on resident’s private homes to monitor their activities, namely those attending large outdoor parties, across all five of the city’s five Boroughs. The NYPD made this announcement during a press conference published on X.
The deployment is in response to noise complaints and other non-emergency calls, Assistant NYPD Commissioner Kaz Daughtry explained, before actual officers arrive at parties celebrating Labor Day weekend, including the West Indian American Day Carnival parade and the J’ouvert festival in Brooklyn.
If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party to make sure if the call is founded or not. And we’ll be able to determine how many resources we need to send to that location for this weekend.
Daughtry announced
Daughtry added that the drones will broadcast computer-generated voice messages or live messages from an NYPD commander. Drones will also trialed this past June during a Gay Pride parade in Washington Square Park, which issued a message to roughly 4,000 people at the park.
Believe it or not, people actually turned down their radios, looked up, heard the announcement, and the park cleared in about 10 minutes.
Daughtry added
Mayor Eric Adams has also welcomed the move. At a news conference on Friday Adams addressed privacy concerns.
We have to push back on the sci-fi aspects of drones.
What we are doing over this weekend, there are a number of calls of loud music, disruptive behavior. Instead of the police having to respond and look at those, they’re going to utilize drones from a safe distance up, not down flying into someone’s backyard to see what they have on the grill.
We want to utilize this technology to complement our crisis management team, complement our police personnel and respond appropriately, and be able to respond in record time.
Adams explained, adding that police were not going to be monitoring people’s conversations over the holiday weekend.
In April Adams and the NYPD unveiled several new robot police to monitor the streets and track crime, with one bot having the capability to fire projectiles.
But there are of course concerns with this move.
As noted by The Washington Post, ‘When Adams unveiled updated guidelines in July to “allow responsible drone usage” among private drone operators in the city, at no point did he, New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban or Bob Barrows, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for strategic initiatives, mention an update regarding the NYPD’s drone surveillance at private residences, according to a transcript posted by the mayor’s office. The guidelines published in July do not address if the NYPD has any policies in regard to drone surveillance.’
Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told The WaPo in a statement:
This is really alarming. A plan to send drones into people’s backyards just for having a barbecue should have never gotten off the ground. This is incredibly invasive and downright creepy.
It’s really horrifying that we’re at the point where we have to worry about how we’ll be misunderstood in our own backyard.
Cahn said
Last year the Communist Chinese Party deployed the use of many drones to bark orders to residents to stay indoors, not break curfew, to stop singing and screaming outside, maintain social distancing, and so on.
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Moreover, in July NBC reported on drones were beginning to be used to monitor residents in Southern Californian, though the police say the drones are meant to be first responders to crime and not act as surveillance monitors. Nevertheless, NBC noted:
‘The drone’s powerful camera can provide a view of several square blocks, or it can zoom in close enough to read a license plate. In Santa Monica, the drone camera was the only witness to a brutal robbery, and one of two suspects was apprehended and convicted. On at least three occasions, it provided responding officers with critical, otherwise unobtainable information — that what looked like guns in the hands of subjects were not real firearms. That insight allowed officers to respond much less aggressively.’
This technology is in its infancy. It is developing. It’s such a game changer. … For us, breaking the faith, using it irresponsibly — any benefit that we would get will never outweigh the benefits that it gives us.
An officer managing the operations told NBC
NBC was also given a demonstration of a tactical drone called The Lemur is made by BRINC; ‘a hardened quadcopter that can break glass, push open doors, fly into buildings and allow police to talk to barricaded subjects in hostage situations,’ NBC noted.
What we found in tactical situations is if we can communicate with a person, we can de-escalate it much quicker and bring the situation to resolution. But we also deployed it during the Surfside condo collapse in Florida to look for people that were trapped inside the building.
Our position is it’s legitimate for police departments to use drones to find a lost kid in the woods, for raids, accidents, crime scenes.
Don Redmond, a retired Chula Vista police officer who now works for BRINC, said
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In March, 2021, I had written that AI-powered drones were set to rollout across a multitude of police stations.
[17] As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. [18] They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. [19] Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. Lamentations 4:17-19
This stuff is straight-up dystopian. The spying, the snooping, the surveillance, the oppression, the overreach, is getting severely out of hand fairly quickly, and already has for some time; but most Americans, per usual, remain in their lobotomized state.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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ALEX JONES WAS RIGHT !!!!! AGAIN!!!! Drones and killer robots are not coming , there already here. Fun times ladies and Gentlemen…say NO to LOCKDOWN 2.0 !!!!