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Stupid question time: If we use drones, how exactly will that help? If I'm the sniper, I look up in the sky, see if a drone is there, if not...I pull the trigger. If so, I keep driving.

I assume that the Predators are flying at a high enough altitude so that you can't see them and tracking thermal images on the ground, as well as visual images, and keeping a visual record on a variety of cameras which it can analyze and extrapolate data from later. You can't hear it; you keep driving; you get away with one killing, probably, and then they have you, hopefully, I guess.

And I'm quite sure our military tech would be better than cameras on onramps -- I just want an explanation as to why we're going to use such expensive *war* machinery on what has still only been confirmed to us as a "civilian killing spree". Y'know? ;-) I'm trying not to tilt too far in either direction, but I'd like some words from some folk above Moose to clear this matter up. Bush's modified-limited yesterday was not what I was looking for.

--KL

I just want an explanation as to why we're going to use such expensive *war* machinery on what has still only been confirmed to us as a "civilian killing spree". Y'know? ;-)

An explanation would be nice. I'm not holding my breath, though.

The main problem with a drone is narrow field of view. Extremely unlikely the drone would be over the site when a shooting takes place. It COULD get to a shooting faster than a police car, but so could a helicopter, and the stabilized optics and cameras on police helicopters are amazingly good - good enough to pick a face out of a crowd from a great enough distance that you could not hear the helicopter over local traffic noise. The drone thing sounds like more wild trashing on the part of a clueless Chief Moose.

Predators are pretty noticable and considering normal flight paths of aircraft, etc. predators will be noticable.

I just really question the effectiveness of the predators. Then again, I also question the effectiveness of sending 240 squad cars to the scene of the crime rather than establishing a perimeter on ALL adjacent main thoroughfares with lookouts and potentially roadblocks.