Cop cars to be replaced with drones by 2025

Saturday, November 24, 2012 10:59 AM

Law enforcement agencies across the US are lining up to be among the first to use drones to serve and protect, but unmanned vehicles are likely to replace the traditional cop cruiser in just a few short years.

In places like California, Texas and Washington State, police officers in recent weeks have intensified their demands for surveillance drones, a necessary addition they say to their arsenal of tools to help thwart crime. The Federal Aviation Administration has yet to finalize plans to put drones in US airspace, but by the end of the decade as many as 30,000 UAVs are expected to be soaring through the sky.

By 2025, those drones are predicted to take the place of the police patrol car as unmanned vehicles operated by cops are being considered a likely inclusion on our roads of tomorrow.

http://rt.com/usa/news/cop-patrol-drone-la-442

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Permalink Reply by Alan K on November 24, 2012 at 12:10pm

Makes me think Judge Dredd is coming also.

Permalink Reply by Jeffrey Lors on November 24, 2012 at 12:14pm

I hear that - looks like new moving targets -

Permalink Reply by truth on November 24, 2012 at 1:02pm

skynet activated

Permalink Reply by apeman2502 on November 28, 2012 at 11:34pm

James etc., your kung-fu is the best.

Permalink Reply by Nathan on November 24, 2012 at 1:05pm

In places like California, Texas and Washington State, police officers in recent weeks have intensified their demands for surveillance drones

And the police depts will get them.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/13730-homeland-security-u...

Permalink Reply by Bildo on November 24, 2012 at 1:34pm

Instead of pulling you over they'll just blow you away. I wonder if they've considered what happens when these things get sucked up into a jet engine intake, or hits propellers.

Permalink Reply by Sheridan Louis Peterson on November 24, 2012 at 1:39pm

The question is "How to combat this intrusion?". I recall how the Viet Cong took on the helicopter. They eliminated thousands of them. One tactic was planting spikes in tall grass. Charlie had very little against our Juggernaut, but they triumphed. I am not advocating violence. I wouldn't long if I did; however there are other ways of stopping this invasion of privacy. Just as we the people won against segregation in the South, we can win nonviolently against this intrusion.

Permalink Reply by truth on November 24, 2012 at 1:41pm

"How to combat this intrusion?".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-06_Springfield

Permalink Reply by Nathan on November 24, 2012 at 1:47pm

@James

And I agree, Sheridan, there is a way to win non-violently; the question is will we use it? I currently see very little resistance to tptb.

"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." Sun Tzu

Permalink Reply by Basil on November 24, 2012 at 2:38pm

I am SURE this is for OUR "Safety"; I think i'll watch "Terminator" tonight.

Permalink Reply by KIDNEY on November 24, 2012 at 3:38pm

to serve and protect the masters of the universe. the law says that a cops job is to enforce the code and protect the corporation. this is valid case law.

Permalink Reply by Bildo on November 24, 2012 at 3:52pm

Too bad it's so hard to get people to realize that United States IS a corporation. Even when we show them, in black and white, that it is. They just don't get it.