Drones approved for Civilian use...When will your city get theirs?

[andolin]

From the RT and various other sources..


http://rt.com/usa/us-drones-civilian-use-685/

Quote from the article.
"Most non-military use of drones in the US has so far been limited to the police and other government agencies. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in March that drones will soon be used by the NYPD and will become as ubiquitous as security cameras."

Apparently they are shooting them down in Colorado..

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/07/22/want-to-hunt-a-drone-go-to-this-colorado-town/

Annie get yer gun..

Andy

[sky otter]

interestingly ..we had a few fly over here lately..and i wondered why they were using
MY airspace
finally  the last one that i saw i waved and gave a one fingered salute to...
sigh
now i am wondering who was driving.

and as i have given thought to it ..they weren't marked..but they were low enough  to see what they were..of course my brain didn't figure it out until the third and finaly one went over..
haven't seen any since..

if i disappear you'll know they have me on film disrespecting someone or other

bwhahahahahahahahah

[andolin]

The movie Oblivion is interesting...Military drones to the Max..




Andy

[Phedre]

My little town in the PNW, about 17,000 population has been for the last couple of years madly trying to obtain a gov contract to build the damn things.  Here, it's about Money you see! 

"Chuckle" same here Sky, they are probably getting all kinds of "bad hand salutes" 

[andolin]

Drones patrolling our cities...can Robocop be far behind?

[1Worldwatcher]

Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front
Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates.


December 10, 2011

Reporting from Washington — Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said.

Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in eastern North Dakota. Fearful of an armed standoff, he called in reinforcements from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances and deputy sheriffs from three other counties.

He also called in a Predator B drone.

As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare.

But that was just the start. Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base to fly at least two dozen surveillance flights since June. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have used Predators for other domestic investigations, officials said.

First time Predator Drones were used

It is only going to get worse from this day and date, big Brother is a live and well equip for the masses, and this is now almost three years later.

1WW

[zorgon]

Drones patrolling our cities...can Robocop be far behind?

[andolin]

Predator drones and Robocop doing pushups...I think I need some Jim Beam.