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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Reminder that the NY police department is the only municipal police department in the world with detachments in foreign countries. To protect New York, of course!

  • Anamnesis@lemmy.world
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    Maybe the police should focus on responding to noise complaints in a timely way instead of engaging in yet more surveillance? When I lived in NYC every noise complaint took at least 12 hours to get a police response. Sometimes they wouldn’t come until days later.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      Pigs don’t need drones to follow up on noise complaints. They need drones to know which parties have black people in attendance so they’ll know which noise complaints to take seriously.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    Where does it end? Soon enough they’ll be using those wifi cameras that see through walls just to check up on noise complaints from a neighbor.

      • remer@lemmy.ml
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        But they’re unlikely to have authorization to fly directly over people.

      • aidan@lemmy.worldM
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        I was more thinking about these rules

        Visual line-of-sight (VLOS) only; the unmanned aircraft must remain within VLOS of the remote pilot in command and the person manipulating the flight controls of the small UAS. Alternatively, the unmanned aircraft must remain within VLOS of the visual observer.

        Small unmanned aircraft may not operate over any persons not directly participating in the operation, not under a covered structure, and not inside a covered stationary vehicle.

        Daylight-only operations, or civil twilight (30 minutes before official sunrise to 30 minutes after official sunset, local time) with appropriate anti-collision lighting.

        But it does say this:

        Most of the restrictions discussed above are waivable if the applicant demonstrates that his or her operation can safely be conducted under the terms of a certificate of waiver.

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      Sadly, law enforcement usually gets BVLOS waivers (exemption to Line-Of-Sight rules) very easily, and most yards can easily be surveilled from Class G airspace…

  • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A good cell phone jammer, I would think, would stop them being able to control it. Doubt it would crash, though, it’d probably hover till either the battery died or they show up to investigate.

    Unfortunately you can’t shoot it. If it’s low enough, you might be able to use another drone to snag it with a net or hit it with a strong water gun, then leave it out on the sidewalk, wet and broken, for them to come get.

  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    The cops were foiled by patio coverings. Drats. All that money spent and simply putting up sheets over your backyard would keep your privacy. Make sure your music is loud too in case they’re capturing sound.

  • varoth@lemmy.world
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    This is fascist bullshit. We should have something to knock every one of them out of the sky and smash them to a billion pieces.