Posted on 04/05/2017 11:36:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Neighbors in Hurst are now pushing back after a police drone hovered over a resident's backyard without warning.
Bobbie Sanchez said the feeling of privacy disappeared when her child said "Mommy there's a drone over our roof."
Sanchez said it was hovering long enough for her to take photos and then call for help.
"They're watching my children play in the backyard," said Sanchez. "I called the Hurst Police Department and was pretty surprised to hear that it was them."
Hurst police and fire started using drones earlier this year. They said the day they were over Sanchez's yard was a training exercise.
The department is already making changes. Any officer using the drone will now need high-level approval.
"We will not be doing any type of training exercises over houses and things like that," said Hurst Police Assistant Chief Steve Niekamp.
Going forward, the department’s drones will only launch over crime scenes or accident scenes, or to find a suspect, an active shooter or a missing person. The fire department can also use them to strategize while fighting fires.
"We're working for our citizens, if they have concerns then we definitely need to address it," said Niekamp.
But for Sanchez, and some of her neighbors, trust is already damaged.
"It might be legal but it's still creepy to think that police can be saying that they're training or looking for a criminal and still be looking at you in your backyard," said neighbor Casey Byrnes. Sanchez added, "I am not a person who will give up privacy for safety."
The Texas Privacy Act restricts making recordings on private property but Hurst police told NBC 5 they were not recording in this case.
Also in Tarrant County, Arlington and Mansfield police use drones. Fort Worth police have one for aerial photography, but they said it's not used in the field.
If it’s outside your bathroom window sue their a$$es off for invasion of privacy.
We used to have a policy in the Navy that we didn’t do torpedo training attacks on merchant ships because they might get alarmed.
Just do a google search for Spark Gap Transmitter and you will find that you can very easily JAM the Radio Signal to this drone Illegally Invading your Property and watch it Fall Straight to the Ground where you can Stomp on it and destroy it.
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/how-to-build-a-radiodrone-jammer/34089
There are LOTS of Easy to build Designs
http://hackaday.com/2016/10/12/become-very-unpopular-very-fast-with-this-diy-emp-generator/
Become Very Unpopular Very Fast With This DIY EMP Generator
If a drone (no matter whose it is) is flying over one’s property without a warrant or permission, we should have the right to knock it out of the air. Lots of pervs out there “playing” with drones.
Is it against the law to privately sun bath au natural in your own back yard?
You can get arrested for public exposure if anyone can see you sunbathing in the nude on your own property, there have been arrests of individuals inside their homes who were nude in front of windows, so it would be illegal unless no one could possibly see you. Starts getting a little vague with airborne observation.
The blatant lie is that it wasn’t recording.
A) not going to record a training exercise? Hogwash
B) if they had shot it out of the sky, does *ANYONE* here want to bet me they wouldn’t have produced a recording as proof when (not if) they prosecuted the person?
Cop and his/her immediate superiors should have been fired, on the spot.
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>>where you can Stomp on it and destroy it.<<
Yep. And you better call a lawyer cause next thing you’ll hear is your front door coming off the hinges, then the click click click of the handcuff being snugged around your wrist.
We’ve lost our freedom folks.
Remember the movie called “Blue Thunder”
The helicopter pilot was spying thru a window at a women er... exercising.
Now they have drones!
“Is it against the law to privately sun bath au natural in your own back yard?”
So long as it’s not visible from public, no. And if that’s the case then you have a reasonable expectation of privacy and the courts will be on your side in such cases.
TV show “Colony” not so far fetched.
Being in your backyard is NOT being in “public”. They should SUE.
The first thing you do if a drone is hovering over your property is take all your clothes off and run outside. Then nail them for voyeurism or the like!!
Well, it seems pretty silly to me to think they’re going to be very effective with the things if they don’t train with them. And I don’t know how you could do effective training anywhere but over the city, bein’ as it’s the police. Maybe they could mark them or something.
Seems like both of those would require some fairly decent accuracy. I’d go with the Mossgerg 500 scatter gun.
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