Posted on 01/13/2013 2:34:10 PM PST by blam
Orlando Florida Patrolled By Surveillance Drones As Early As This Summer
Robert Johnson
Jan. 13, 2013, 8:18 AM
Octatron shows the camera aboard the SkySeer drone used for surveillance and reconnaissance for law enforcement
When Congress passed a bill last February allowing unmanned drones to fly American skies it became only a matter of time before UAVs patrolled U.S. cities for local law enforcement.
While most drones in the U.S. are flown along the Mexican border, the Orange County Sheriff's Office wants to put them over metro Orlando within the next few months. The Greater Orlando metropolitan area is home to more than 2 million residents and is Florida's third largest city.
Dan Tracy at the Orlando Sentinel reports the local sheriff wants a pair of unarmed UAVs able to record the activities of everyday citizens and criminals alike.
From the Sentinel:
Sheriff's spokesman Jeff Williamson ... would not say exactly how the drones would be used, he wrote in an email that they might be deployed when looking for explosives, barricaded suspects and to inspect "hostile/inaccessible terrain" or at train accidents.
As for civil-rights concerns, Williamson wrote, "The OCSO has the privacy of its citizenry as a foremost concern. The device will only be put into operations on the command of the high risk incident commander."
Thermal drone image of a house showing rafters in the roof and the heat lamps in the bathroom
The sheriff still needs the County Commission to sign off on the request before it goes to the FAA for approval. The federal agency should have no problem accommodating as it was ordered by Congress to get as many drones as possible into the air by November, and be able to handle 30,000 UAVs by 2020.
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Losing GPS is not detrimental as all aircraft have a self contained non jammable navigation source. Most of these "drones" will be the same way. There are other ways to defeat them.
Rush just said that the Democrats were in the process of isolating the South again...they're to Conservative.
Any Federal assault will probably begin in the South under some racial pretensions.
Jesse Jackson just said that gunmakers should be made to pay for gun violence/deaths. Think tobacco law suits.
Whether it is detrimental or not isn’t the point. It is still illegal to interfere with navigational signals.
In a SHTF scenario legality goes out the window.
Target practice?
Hypothetically speaking, what would be the best caliber to bring down one of these puppies?
The would fly out of effective range. There are better ways to make them ineffective.
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