NYPD May Employ Surveillance Drones - CCTVBLOG // #OccupyWallStreet - #TakeWallStreet | Hoist'n th' Folly Roger

NYPD May Employ Surveillance Drones - CCTVBLOG // #OccupyWallStreet - #TakeWallStreet | Hoist'n th' Folly Roger

September262011

NYPD May Employ Surveillance Drones - CCTVBLOG // #OccupyWallStreet - #TakeWallStreet

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A December 2010 email from the NYPD to the FAA indicating the department’s early stages of investigating the use of drones.
Heads up, park cruisers. The police department may soon be operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) “as a law enforcement tool” in New York City, giving that agency the capability to monitor activities in city parks, on streets, and in other public areas from the air.

In January, Gay City News made a Freedom of Information request to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeking “any application or applications made by the New York City Police Department or any other New York City agency to operate an unmanned aerial vehicle in the New York City area.”

In its response, the FAA reported that it had not received any such applications, but it released a December 13, 2010 email to the FAA from a police department detective who wanted to know “who has ‘Certificates of Authority’ to fly Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the U.S.”

The detective’s name was blacked out, but he was identified as part of the NYPD Counterterrorism Division in his email. He wrote, “Currently, we are in the basic stages of investigating the possible use of UAV’s as a law enforcement tool.
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