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New York City police will send drones to sites of reported robberies and gunshots

www.theguardian.com New York City police will send drones to sites of reported robberies and gunshots

Despite civil liberty and accuracy concerns, the NYPD will dispatch drones to gunshots reported by Shotspotter

Summary

The NYPD announced an expansion of its “Drone as First Responder” program, using drones to respond to robberies and alerts from ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system with a high error rate.

The drones will provide real-time video and audio to officers, aiding in investigations, crowd monitoring, and emergency responses.

Civil liberties groups have raised privacy concerns, especially as ShotSpotter has been criticized for inaccuracies and for disproportionately targeting Black and brown neighborhoods.

Other cities, like Chicago and Durham, have already moved to end or review their ShotSpotter contracts.

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So what's to stop the government using these for mass surveillance or targeting government dissidents
- Don't you worry your pretty little head about it. If you're not doing anything wrong then it won't matter, right?
  
  Lol.
I can imagine being robbed and a drone just flies around with blinking red and blue lights with a siren.

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- Live in NYC. Wait time is closer to 2-3 hours. Unless someone has a gun, NYPD doesn't care
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"Welcome to City 17!"
- Pick up that can.
- Time to dust off the crowbar
  
  It's gonna take more than a crowbar to get us out of this one
It's all fun and games until there's a shahed in the bodega
When do they get the Department of Precrime to go with it?
- We need them psychic triplets first.
  
  No problem, Trump supporters will tell them the color of the neighborhoods to target.
Nice. We finally know we’re in the Watch Dogs universe.
- Or creeping into Slaughterbots terrority.
  
  Yeah, we are yet to make sure that the drones run on the same OS as the Teslas.
So even more useless than it already is?
- Just want until the drones discover Candy Crush. Then the drones will get drones.
In before they shoot down the drones.
Shit shit shit just everywhere all shit
It would be so unfortunate if someone made an Open source hardware version of anti-drone guns...
- The first time someone shoots one down, they're going to make it so that downing a drone has the same criminal penalty as attacking an officer. Mark my words.
  
  But like the police dogs. They’ll abuse them themselves without issue.
I’m sure they’ll put them back in storage after problems are resolved…NOT.