OK. You win. But I'd suppress it ;).
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.
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.
I considered that outcome, I live in the COuntry , out in the sticks so it will never happen around me. But if I lived in the City and this happened, I would absolutely bring it Down with a Jammer and Erase All the electronics with a mini EMP. Then I would call 911 and report that I was ATTACKED by An ILLEGAL DRONE and My Lawyer and I would be FILING Formal Criminal Charges against the Operator Immediately.
Reckless Endangerment
Criminal Stalking
Trespassing
Eavesdropping
Assault and Battery
This area, where JRandomFreeper hailed from, also thunk up a cute little ‘voluntary’ checkpoint for collecting DNA. We hammered Abbott together, who wrote us both back, and that operation was prohibited the next day.
Can’t shoot it down in the city limits, so what might be a good way to bring it down?
OK. You win. But I'd suppress it ;).
Furthermore, won't be long, police drones will be armed. First with nonlethal, then they will move to lethal forms of armament.
I believe Connecticut will be the first to arm their drones. At this point, try to bring one down and ya may get a bean bag round to the forehead. Juss sayin
Clothes not required at all in San Francisco, or at least that was the case because they had to carry towels to set on in restaurants.
The story line in that show is beginning to make sense so I guess they will have to cancel it.
There was a story on FOX this morning decrying the use of these cheap drones y terrorists. They can be brought down with electronic devices, some even let you take control of them or you can just emp them.
A small handheld Spark Gap Jammer/Transmitter powered by a 9 volt battery will NEVER be seen, about the size of a Pack of Cigarettes and is good for Line of Sight of a couple hundred Yards easily. IT WILL JUST CRASH AND BURN, Nobody will ever figure out why, it just will.!!!
They could have picked a hundred other places to conduct a training exercise.
Sling shot with ball bearings. No noise and effective.
Why not? Paint guns are legal, and probably don't fit the definition of "firearm" in most jurisdictions, except probably in places like communist Massachusetts or New Jersey
Prolly ought to not show your cards at the poker table.
We wus jes a playin’ paintball. Figgered Billy Bob done called in his air force.
If one of those comes flying around my house and gets lower than the top of the chimney +/- a safety margin, I’ll regard it as an invasion of my air space.
I knew a guy who used a suppressed shotgun in VN, said it terrified the Viet Cong.
Almost no individual in government, at any level, is to be trusted with what they say. Sorry.
OMG! That’s real purdy.
How about training on their own houses? It
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Buy your own drone and indulge in some aerial jousting. Some variant of the tactics the RAF used against the V1 flying bomb should produce reasonable results. Or get one that can carry a reasonable payload and use it to dump water on the interloping drone. Usually not terribly waterproof.
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