penalties for not abiding by the laws AND jurisdiction as to whom will be the enforcement agency... should be headed at the federal level and enforcement responsibilities should be universal across all agencies. anything less is inadequate at best and a sham at any level.

A law can't be uniformly in force unless it's federally administered... just look at the recent split decisions made by the SCOTUS which casts the decisions back to lower court districts which means those laws/decisions are not in force universally throughout the nation, only in the circuit court district where the last decision (which was appealed) ends up standing as the law in that district only. The input of the SCOTUS is required to make the ruling universally in force.

...the FAA has guidelines for UAV/UAS operation and the FBI should be pursuing criminals that violate those.

I'm okay with congress passing additional criminal laws and penalties.

It's a "Near Hit"

A crash is a Near Miss!

Most guidance and rules for those problems have the airport police in charge of enforcement.

Because of the hazard to commercial passenger flights and the inherently larger sized aircraft involved, I don't think the airport operators nor the local or county law enforcement can handle the effort. The LAX incident occurred at almost a mile up in the air and 14 miles East. This would be somewhere around the South Gate/Downey area.

The only workable answer I see is a roving federal patrol in line with approach and departure routes. Penalties are fine but new detection and enforcement methods are needed.

The most effective safety system would likely be improvements to TCAS for UAV detection.

that his drone was equipped with a 'geo-fence' which prevented it from flying in such areas. Maybe they all need to be so equipped if the technology works, not that tireless hackers wouldn't be all over it.

This was always a potential problem but with drone popularity the hazards are multiplying.

For the almost-5 years you have been here, I have read your user name as discount_irony_sarcasm.

...had the DU2 software accepted that many characters, that would be my user name.

That just goes to prove many letters in English are superfluous.