The Future is Here

Well, not here per se. It's in New York as usual....and Chicago will end up stealing it at some point:

• The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is now sending drones out on 9-1-1 calls to do the business that their Candy Crush-addicted human officers are too busy to tackle — and surveilling everyone in sight while they do it.

  As the cybersecurity news site The Record reports, these "drones as first responders" — or DFRs, as the NYPD calls them — can fly up to 45 miles per hour, filming everything on the block with telephoto cameras that can, per manufacturer Skydio, identify faces and license plates from nearly a mile away.

  Launched last year as part of embattled mayor Eric Adams' quest to shove technology into everything regardless of public opinion, these drones were initially only going to respond to "select priority public safety calls," according to a press release issued last November that formally announced the program.

  As The Record notes, however, the NYPD's definition of "select priority" seems awfully vague — and it doesn't actually report how many drones are deployed on police calls, either.

Quite a lot of secrecy surrounding the use of drones, mostly because they don't want everyone knowing how much data they're collecting and how accurate and detailed a lot of the hardware is - the pictures and video footage is astounding to say the least.

It's lucky Illinois and Chicago are too bankrupt to do any of the expensive pioneering work that will eventually end with a gigantic spy network in all major cites. Fata$$ and Conehead are certainly waiting for a democrat administration to gift them the billions it will cost to set up such a network.

Anyone wanting to be part of DRONE FORCE had better have their qualifications (i.e. pilot licenses) in place, because the connected are probably already enrolled in classes.