{"id":16209,"date":"2013-01-14T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=16209"},"modified":"2013-01-14T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:31:43","slug":"drones-over-new-york-nypd-chief-admits-hes-interested-in-an-uav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/01\/drones-over-new-york-nypd-chief-admits-hes-interested-in-an-uav\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones over New York? NYPD chief admits he\u2019s interested in an UAV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The head of the New York City Police Department announced this week that the largest local law enforcement agency in the United States might soon rely on spy drones for conducting surveillance.<\/span><\/p>\n

During an open conversation held Thursday between Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, the chief of police confirmed that New York\u2019s boys in blue aren\u2019t entirely opposed to acquiring an unmanned aerial vehicle for the sake of security.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking into it,”<\/em>\u00a0Kelly reportedly told an audience at the 92nd Street Y Thursday evening.\u00a0\u201cAnything that helps us.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jill Colvin, a producer for the website DNAinfo, says Kelly told his crowd that adding an UAV to their arsenal of surveillance tools could come in handy during future mass protests in the Big Apple. For starters, she reports, Kelly said cops could begin with using basic civilian models that are available for purchase online and in stores.<\/span><\/p>\n

“You can go to Brookstone and buy a drone,”<\/em>\u00a0Kelly told the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing we would do is maybe use the cheap $250 ones to take a look and see the size of the demonstration or something along those lines,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Colvin quotes him as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration is still ironing out a rulebook for how UAVs will be used domestically in the years to come. Currently, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rely on the spy planes to secure the country\u2019s borders. Dozens of smaller agencies across the country have applied to use drones too, though, a decision that has led to a large amount of concern from civil liberty advocates that say blanketing surveillance violates the US Constitution\u2019s Fourth Amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The law hasn’t caught up with the technology,”<\/em>\u00a0Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the Oakland Tribune last year.\u00a0“There are no rules of the road for how they operate these things.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Months earlier, Timm and another member of the EFF led a discussion about drones at the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York. There they said the surveillance drones currently being manufactured have the capability to\u00a0\u201czoom in and read a milk carton from 60,000 feet\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the air.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just recently, the sheriff of Alameda County, California postponed a public discussion regarding his plans to procure a surveillance drone after\u00a0news of the proposal<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>spurred a grassroots opposition campaign. Down state in San Diego, the county Sheriff\u2019s Office has come under fire from journalists who say law enforcement is\u00a0withholding information<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>about plans for an UAV. When the website MuckRack insisted they had proof that San Diego County was issued information about obtaining a drone, officials fired back\u00a0“there is very little public benefit in the release of such records.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Should New York City secure a drone of their own, there is little one could do that isn\u2019t already possible in NYC. As of last year, the NYPD had access to around 2,000 surveillance cameras on just the island of Manhattan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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