Definitely. We've been in the early stages of the dystopic cyberpunk age for awhile now and it's definitely not fun. That being said, you know drone hacking is about to start becoming very common and I'm definitely here for it, heh.
If you read the article it seems like they're basically sending drones to deal with neighbor complaints about parties rather than having human cops do it. Which is... still dystopian, but they're not just flying drones around randomly to spy on everyone, they're doing it in cases where somebody has actually asked them to send a cop over (presumably to weed out the high % of those cases that are just some random old person complaining about a dozen people having a barbecue in their backyard).
The article actually says they send drones first to determine how many police officers they need to send. So they're essentially doing illegal drone recon without a warrant before dispatching their goons.
OK, but isn't this also going to mean fewer officers actually visiting places, and hence less risk of them showing up at a random doorstep and "he's got a gun"ing their way to shooting an innocent person?
(the overriding desire of every cop is to get away with doing less work; it's hard for me to imagine they won't take advantage of this to extend their donut-eating hours by deciding that the vast majority of cases do not require a follow-up)
Well, they're branded and brought to you by NYPD, so I expect they'd have killer defense. Open fire on one, six other fly to your address and jointly open fire on your house. And the're officiers, like police docs are officers, so if you pour Elmer's Glue into its eyeballs you'd be charged with blinding an officer.