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NYPD using drones to check out noisy backyard parties over Labor Day weekend

NYPD using drones to check out noisy backyard parties over Labor Day weekend::Critic says it may violate NYC's Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act.

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Plainly illegal search, they do it anyways
Sling shot target practice.
- Then they’ll start calling the drones “robotic police officers” so they can charge you with assaulting a cop, like they do with the dogs.
It would be a shame if someone were to blast it with enough RF noise to disrupt its functionality.
I hate America
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The New York City Police Department said it will use drones to check out backyard parties when neighbors call to complain about large crowds this weekend.
Daughtry spoke near the end of a press conference (see video) about safety and security measures for J'Ouvert, a "traditional street festival honoring the vast heritage and culture of the Caribbean diaspora," and the West Indian Day Parade.
A privacy advocate said using drones to examine backyard parties appears to violate a New York City law called the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act.
"It's a troubling announcement and it flies in the face of the POST Act... deploying drones in this way is a sci-fi inspired scenario," New York Civil Liberties Union privacy and technology strategist Daniel Schwarz said, according to the AP.
As The Verge pointed out, the NYPD's impact and use policy for drones doesn't mention using the devices to examine backyard parties.
"In accordance with the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, an addendum to this impact and use policy will be prepared as necessary to describe any additional uses of UAS."
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- I🖤 government surveillance!!! I feel so safe and warm and fuzzy!
  Fuck these class traitors. Fuck the police. Eliminate this problem, they can't stop us as a population. Stop licking the boot, they're class traitors at the least but mostly racist, murdering, raping, thieving, sociopaths. 🏴🏴🏴
  
  maybe you should go out and see the sun a little bit more.
- NYC is serious about noise issues.
  But on a holiday, so many people report gatherings that then cannot check them all. The drone lets them differentiate between a Karen reporting a bbq and someone trying to sleep while their neighbor throws a rager.

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