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You get manned aircraft to come and check in before the police when you call 911?

In high school in the mid 2000s in Denver, they had a chopper in the air on weekend nights from 8 until 2:30 am or so.

When our parties got called in, the spotlight would be the warning that the cops were a few minutes away and it was time to run.

Lots of cities have manned aircraft loitering during busy times that will respond to a call before ground units


Yes, often the first response to some calls is a CHP aircraft that continuously loiters in the area.

What's the drone gonna do?

Likely: Scan everyone's home while en-route to the 911 call with an infrared camera. Or scan all of the license plates and faces of people along the way.

Possible: Perhaps crash into someone? Or worse.


> Scan everyone's home while en-route to the 911 call with an infrared camera.

That's unconstitutional. Use a regular camera and it's fine for some reason.


Facial recognition scan for ICE

All of 3Blue1Brown is - hoghly highly recommend

I've seen most! Highlighting this one out of them all. Exemplary! : D

That's a weird take. How bad do you imagine it going?


> No idea on the hard data

Great thanks!


Right? It must've cost a fortune for absolutely no measurable impact, let alone any kind of possible benefit.

Shameful


Sounds like your average political decision.


10/10 no notes


I know it's a meta comment, but I like the way this article is written, does anyone know what style it is closest to?


Or algorithms have to be submitted and approved by a government body before being allowed to be implemented and are frequently audited


I guess this is the only way. I don't think we need novel approach and I don't consider this a novel one since we already have government agencies verifying approved processes in other areas so why not content distrubution.


> fractal layers of ossified cruft

Someone got a thesaurus in their coffee today! (Not a jab)


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