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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOrlando Florida Patrolled By Surveillance Drones As Early As This Summer
http://www.businessinsider.com/orlando-octatron-skyseeer-florida-surveillance-drones-2013-1Octatron shows the camera aboard the SkySeer drone used for surveillance and reconnaissance for law enforcement
When Congress passed a bill last February allowing unmanned drones to fly American skies it became only a matter of time before UAVs patrolled U.S. cities for local law enforcement.
While most drones in the U.S. are flown along the Mexican border, the Orange County Sheriff's Office wants to put them over metro Orlando within the next few months. The Greater Orlando metropolitan area is home to more than 2 million residents and is Florida's third largest city.
Dan Tracy at the Orlando Sentinel reports the local sheriff wants a pair of unarmed UAVs able to record the activities of everyday citizens and criminals alike.
From the Sentinel:
Sheriff's spokesman Jeff Williamson ... would not say exactly how the drones would be used, he wrote in an email that they might be deployed when looking for explosives, barricaded suspects and to inspect "hostile/inaccessible terrain" or at train accidents.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/orlando-octatron-skyseeer-florida-surveillance-drones-2013-1#ixzz2Hrgii6Az
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Orlando Florida Patrolled By Surveillance Drones As Early As This Summer (Original Post)
xchrom
Jan 2013
OP
There seem to be so many nuts in the US anymore, I guess I'm starting to see why they need
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#1
Homeland Security is going to need lots of these to monitor gun shows attendees and gun hoarders.
onehandle
Jan 2013
#2
FAA has not yet cleared police drones and there is way too much air traffic over Orlando
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#3
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. There seem to be so many nuts in the US anymore, I guess I'm starting to see why they need
tools like this, I guess, but I still don't like it ...
onehandle
(51,122 posts)2. Homeland Security is going to need lots of these to monitor gun shows attendees and gun hoarders.
They will be militia-ing up now that everything has changed.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)5. Just what the militias need, more targets
Those are being sold as radio controlled airplanes. There is no FAA approved paperwork for drones other than that over populated areas.
They are also incredibly easy to jam
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)3. FAA has not yet cleared police drones and there is way too much air traffic over Orlando
for this to be safe
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)4. Now you know why surface to air missiles are protected by the 2nd amendment
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)6. Shotguns should be adequate...
jwirr
(39,215 posts)7. May be better than George Zimmerman.