Of course they could be abused, but these have to be much cheaper to run than a helicopter and could be very useful when conducting a search of a large area or looking for trouble in crowds. As long as there are bad people around we need the police and they need the right tools to do the job. These are going to be visible when flying, so it's not like they can be watching us all the time without us knowing. We have all the CCTV cameras to do that ;)
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I'm sure they are useful in many cases. I'm just paranoid sometimes. I have been mugged and severely beaten in a dark ally before. All over a $25 flip phone. That probably wouldn't have happened if there had been one of those drones around.
Sorry to hear that. We want to be safe, but we don't want to be constantly tracked. We have to find compromises. As this thing only flies for 20 minutes I expect it's going to be deployed when there's already something going on.
Sure. Always have to find that middle.
Wouldn't people raise chaotic concerns regarding their "privacy" though, as much as they admit that drone surveillance is of good assistance in crime fighting?
Lots of people seem to not care about privacy anymore. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
That's absolutely true. Regarding your post about being mugged, my country could do with these drones.
We seem to accept all the CCTV cameras, so is this worse? If my child was lost I'd want the police to have tools like this
I didn't think that far. CCTV would be more flexible in such a case. As long as the equipment does not suddenly "malfunction", the tech would definitely find missing children and combat all other types of crime.