by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins:
When someone calls 911 for police in the upscale beach town of Santa Monica, California, a drone is dispatched from the roof of the station with a push of a button.
On the one hand, having the ability to quickly dispatch a drone to a crime or accident scene could be a good thing, and help police to gather more information faster which would serve to help them solve more crimes. On the other hand, having drones could get out of hand in relatively short order, leading to less and less personal freedoms and ultimately to a time where we are policed by machines like we see in dystopian movies like ‘Minority Report’ and others. In California, police and all branches of law enforcement are using drones as first responders.
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When people like Klaus Schwab wax poetically about things like the Great Reset, I can’t help but think that a world governed by machines, robots and algorithms is what they’re referring to. Ask yourself, would an army of drones arriving from the sky make you feel more safe, or less safe? If you look close you will see a pattern emerging. Self-driving cars, self-driving trucks, drones all powered by AI, what’s missing from the picture? People. That’s what’s missing. Get it?
In this beach town, sometimes the first cop on the scene is a drone
FROM NBC NEWS: Officers respond, as well. But most of the time, the drone gets there first — rushing to a set of GPS coordinates punched in by the controller. Sometimes it is there in as fast as 30 seconds.
“It’s a fundamental change in the way that we can bring policing services to our city,” said Peter Lashley, a veteran of the force who often pilots the drone from a screen-filled command center inside the police station.
The drone’s powerful camera can provide a view of several square blocks, or it can zoom in close enough to read a license plate. In Santa Monica, the drone camera was the only witness to a brutal robbery, and one of two suspects was apprehended and convicted. On at least three occasions, it provided responding officers with critical, otherwise unobtainable information — that what looked like guns in the hands of subjects were not real firearms. That insight allowed officers to respond much less aggressively.
At a time when law enforcement agencies face a crisis of legitimacy amid a series of high-profile murder cases against officers, police say drones could make a huge impact by defusing potentially violent situations. Their proliferation is also likely to prompt fears about risks to privacy and a renewed debate about the balance of power between ordinary people and their government.
But in Southern California, the police officials who have implemented what is known as the “drones as first responder” program say residents and political leaders have been supportive, because they do not use the drones to hover over neighborhoods, hunting for crime. The courts have found that blanket aerial police surveillance over an entire city is unconstitutional.
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