A growing number of police departments are interested in sending a drone to nearly every call for service in their communities. The trend requires heightened public vigilance around use, policy, and data sharing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/hundreds-drone-first-responder-programs-could-soon-be-launched-across-country
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Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country
Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle toward making deployment a reality, expanding aerial surveillance and data collection even in areas patrol officers typically can't reach.As of...
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@eff I understand. What police most value in this is its far safer 'first eyes' potential, the ability to (literally) scope out a situation or setting before sending human resources in who might face some kind of danger.
Sufficiently sophisticated versions might also be able to usefully interact with subjects on the scene in various ways.
That's the rosy, good-for-society view.
A concern, however, is the equally powerful instinct of many police depts to use this for unwarranted surveillance.