Posted on 04/26/2020 7:09:19 AM PDT by McGruff
The Westport Police Department, located in Connecticut’s hardest-hit county of Fairfield, has abandoned its idea to use high-tech drones that can detect symptoms of coronavirus infection from up to 190 feet away. The backtracking came after people expressed privacy concerns about the program.
On Thursday, Police Chief Foti Koskinas and First Selectman Jim Marpe said the drone surveillance plan would not come to fruition because it was “not well-received,” according to Westport News.
“In our good faith effort to get ahead of the virus and potential need to manage and safely monitor crowds and social distancing in this environment, our announcement was perhaps misinterpreted, not well-received, and posed many additional questions,” Marpe said in a statement.
“We heard and respect your concerns and are therefore stepping back...
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Never happen
Sheepdogs. Very good!
Just make you one of these and fill it with monofilament fishing net instead of a t-shirt and take these things out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCz7C6jEIk
Like NJ Governor Murphy claiming the Bill of Rights is above his pay grade: "Bill of Rights? Never occurred to me"....
Haven’t seen any data on the best shot gun load to take down drones?
Were these some of the ChiCom donated drones...?
More likely the wrong person's ox was gored. A drone probably picked up a city councilman's nephew or mayor's campaign donor doing something they shouldn't have been doing.
They messed up (intentionally? Yep!) by publicizing the drones in advance.
They’ll sneak ‘em back in later, when nobody’s watching & because now that everybody’s been reassured the plan has been scrapped, the government has listened to the people, & the Bill of Rights remains intact. Yay.
This is a standard agit-prop tactic. The masses have swallowed it hook, line & sinker.
Our country is beginning to resemble a cheesy Hollywood
sci-fi movie where the CGI effects are a little too noticeable.
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