For the first time in the history of the United States, a man has been sentenced to jail for an arrest made possible by the use of a drone.Rodney Brossart was arrested in 2011 for refusing to relinquish six cows that had wandered onto his property. After a 16-hour standoff with the Grand Forks, North Dakota SWAT team, police called in a predator drone on loan from the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol.The drone located Brossart and his three armed sons, then notified police of the opportune time to step in and make an arrest.
we are going to have to be very careful how we implement this technology into civilian situations, just remembering how many alleged drone attacks led to civilian casualties, understood that those terrorist deliberately sought out innocents as cover.
but there has to be a range of possibilities of things going wrong also municipal authorities are not military training, temperament all play a part especially with trigger happy, issue ridden cops and technical glitches must be considered before turning that kinda tech loose in a questionable police city or state.
For the first time in the history of the United States, a man has been sentenced to jail for an arrest made possible by the use of a drone.Rodney Brossart was arrested in 2011 for refusing to relinquish six cows that had wandered onto his property. After a 16-hour standoff with the Grand Forks, North Dakota SWAT team, police called in a predator drone on loan from the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol.The drone located Brossart and his three armed sons, then notified police of the opportune time to step in and make an arrest.
we are going to have to be very careful how we implement this technology into civilian situations, just remembering how many alleged drone attacks led to civilian casualties, understood that those terrorist deliberately sought out innocents as cover.
but there has to be a range of possibilities of things going wrong also municipal authorities are not military training, temperament all play a part especially with trigger happy, issue ridden cops and technical glitches must be considered before turning that kinda tech loose in a questionable police city or state.
