Posted on 03/02/2016 10:47:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
Police made the argument that armed drones in law enforcement could be an effective weapon for public safety.
"We've had a report that somebody's going to fly a drone into an airplane, into an engine, or it's a weaponized drone," Farmington Police Chief Paul Melanson said. "We're concerned and we don't have those answers yet."
The ACLU of Connecticut testified against allowing police to arm drones, saying it could open the door even more to excessive use of force.
"We are concerned that there could be misuse, particularly on vulnerable communities," David McGuire of the ACLU said at the hearing.
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Shooting dogs from drones?
It would sure put an end to those stupid car chases...........................
If I owned private property and a drone was flying overhead, I’d call it perfectly acceptable to shoot it out of the sky.
How long will it be before we hear ...
We didn’t shoot that person, it was radio interference that triggered the weapon system.
Wouldn’t it be just as effective to crash your unarmed drone into the suspect drone? People don’t seem to understand that anything fired from an aerial platform that misses is going to land on something or somebody.
No. If we need to shoot something out of the sky, and it’s too high for a shotgun, we should call the Air Force.
What could go wrong?
In all my life I can only think of one incident where a domestic air strike could have been appropriate. That was when the nut stole a tank and started rampaging through the streets of San Diego.
What is the likelihood of that happening again.
Stupid is as stupid does.
What is the likelihood of that happening again.
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A guy did something similar in Colorado a few years back.
The county commission/city council that ultimately controls this police force is derelict in their duties.
There was a guy who did it at Fort Knox in the mid-70s. Crashed a stolen M60 into the MP station over some issue with them, backed up, and continued down the road. He hadn’t locked the hatches, and an MP jumped on, climbed up top, and the driver/hijacker found himself being encouraged to stop while looking at the business end of a 1911.
Tanks were pretty common at Knox in that era, along with people who knew how to drive them.
I wonder what the excuses will be now?
“He lunged at the drone and I feared for it so I killed him.”
“The dog was barking at the drone in a very threatening manner.”
& etc.
My all-time favourite *homesick treadhead* was the guy stationed with the British Army of the Rhine in Europe who decided to drive his FV107 Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicle home to England, the Scimi being amphibious. He actually managed to fill up twice at commercial service stations before his French leave [literally!] was over.
I graduated from Armor AIT at the Armor School in August, 1966. I went on to a couple of other jobs,. at Knox and elsewhere, before alighting with the 70th Armor in Germany, ending my first enlisted tour in 1970. Not real long after that I wound up involved in a couple of *projects* that took me back to Ft Knox again. As I recall the guy you described took out one of the stone gate guard shacks by the simple method of driving right through it. If not assigned to a line tank unit, he'd have made a fine treadhead.
Marvin Heemeyer, who used a homemade-armor-plated Komatsu D355A bulldozer to destroy 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado. Three external explosions and more than 200 rounds of ammunition fired at the bulldozer had no effect on it. Possibly noting the San Diego cop methodology he didn't fit any hatches to his jury-rigged armor casing; once he dropped it in place with a remotely-controlled hydraulic crane he had no way of getting out. He was the only fatality in the event, killed by what was said to be a self-inflicted gun shot.
"God built me for this job", Heemeyer said in a recording he made before his attack. He also said it was God's plan that he not be married or have a family so that he could be in a position to carry out such an attack. "I think God will bless me to get the machine done, to drive it, to do the stuff that I have to do", he said. "God blessed me in advance for the task that I am about to undertake. It is my duty. God has asked me to do this. It's a cross that I am going to carry and I'm carrying it in God's name."
Turn about is fair play.
"I was only following orders...."
What they really mean: The cops in Texas have them, and we want them too!
Check Out Texas’ New Grenade Launcher-Equipped Police Drone in Action [The Blaze]
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