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DoomsdaysCWSo, I'm wondering if these are being launched to spy on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USCitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USCitizens</a> -- maybe even take action against them? Weaponized <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceDrones</a> is an idea that's been floating for years... Are we about to become a full <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a>?Intelligence officials [FAIL TO] reveal source of drones in classified briefingby Melissa Koenig, December 18, 2024"US Coast Guard licensed captain and New Jersey resident Paul Sprieser, 56, has said he does not believe all the sightings can be explained by commercial aircraft or other sanctioned activities."'There's a large percentage of them that are not commercial aircraft, like these stationary objects in the sky that are the size of an SUV that are just hanging out there for five or six hours, or seven hours,' Sprieser told DailyMail.com. "It is possible that the drones could be the result of a 2018 defense contract to develop and test '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/counterterrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#counterterrorism</a>' drones. "The Department of Defense is allowed to deny claims of third-party technologies if the drones were placed on a secure tech list for contract disclosures, which means the government is applying special restrictions to the information. "The restrictions are added when technologies protect national security or to keep advanced systems hidden from hostile nations, and the developer holds primary liability if the government is not operating the drones, Retired CIA Intelligence Officer Rudy Ridolfi explained to DailyMail.com."He noted that the Federal Aviation Administration issued an air restriction alert on November 21 prohibiting flights over the Picatinny base for 'special security reasons' through December 26."'This FAA notice shows US drone testing is happening in the area. It's a warning for others to stay out of the area during those dates,' Ridolfi said."'While the nature of the testing isn't specified, it's most likely the testing of payloads related to reconnaissance.'"The drone sightings began in mid-November when drones were spotted over the US Army's Picatinny Arsenal and President-elect Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster — both in New Jersey."In the weeks that followed, similar drones were reported throughout the state, especially in and around Morris county, and have since spread to other states in the region."<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/intelligence-officials-reveal-source-of-drones-in-classified-briefing/ar-AA1w4oTQ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=824e6b335c634e4fad5a4b97424f7e5a&ei=10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/intelligence-officials-reveal-source-of-drones-in-classified-briefing/ar-AA1w4oTQ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=824e6b335c634e4fad5a4b97424f7e5a&ei=10</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiTerrorism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiTerrorismLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiTerrorismLaws</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NDAA</a>

DoomsdaysCWFrom 2012: The most censored in Indian country: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Drones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Drones</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpyTowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpyTowers</a> and the militarization of Indian landsby <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendaNorrell</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CensoredNews</a>, October 10, 2012"The use of drones on the border, and the militarization of Tohono O’odham sovereign land, heads the list of the most censored issues in Indian country. Tohono O’odham activists who fight the militarization of their lands, and abuse by Border Patrol agents, are oppressed by the elected Tohono O’odham government, and targeted and abused by the US Border Patrol.Among the most secret issues are spy towers and drones. Currently, Tohono O’odham are reporting drones in the skies, but very little is known about these drones."Censored News continues extensive research into the secrecy and militarization at the border."Read more: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/10/drones-over-tohono-oodham-land.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/10/drones-over-tohono-oodham-land.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReadersSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReadersSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpyDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpyDrones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceDrones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousActivists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MilitaryState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilitaryState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orwell</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NineteenEightyFour</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BorderPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BorderPatrol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CBP</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TohonoOodham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TohonoOodham</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MilitarizationOfIndigenousLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilitarizationOfIndigenousLands</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArmedPoliceDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArmedPoliceDrones</a> Are ComingFeb. 15, 2022 by Anthony Accurso (originally published in Reason . com)"It’s not just hobbyists who are exploiting the near-endless potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UAVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UAVs</a> or '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drones</a>'). Law enforcement from all over the country—most especially federal agencies—are using, or making plans to use, drones to conduct <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/subdue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subdue</a> suspects."Americans first became widely aware of drone use by the government in the form of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PredatorUAVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PredatorUAVs</a> deployed for intelligence and offensive purposes, almost exclusively in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiddleEast</a> against 'terrorists.'"But drone technology has come a long way in the last two decades, with drones getting smaller and being able to carry more added weight than before."These advances have allowed them to become the perfect platform upon which law enforcement builds its surveillance programs. Drones can carry sensors for GPS, radar, lidar, range-finding, magnetic fields, chemical and biological sniffers, and, of course, increasingly high-resolution cameras. Federal agencies often attach cell-site simulators to drones—calling them 'dirtboxes' in this use case—to collect digital and cellular data from all unsuspecting citizens in a particular area, not just suspects."Further electronics and software innovations have made these sensors more efficient and capable than ever. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PredatorDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PredatorDrones</a> operated by Customs and Border Protection (“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CBP</a>”) are known to use a system called Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar ('<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VADER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VADER</a>'). VADER implements synthetic aperture radar, a tech trick that uses an aircraft’s motion to minimize the size of the antenna needed to create a high-res map of an area. By comparing these maps moment-by-moment, it creates a 'real-time ground moving target indicator' through 'detecting Doppler shift that moving objects produce in radar return signals.' Like the apex predator in Jurassic Park, these Predators rely on movement to 'see.'"A company called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PersistentSurveillanceSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PersistentSurveillanceSystems</a> has been operating a similar program, under contract by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Baltimore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baltimore</a> olice Department ('BPD'), that uses software to construct a real-time image from photos captured by aircraft-mounted cameras. BPD can then track the (outdoor) movement of every pedestrian or vehicle in a 32-square-mile area. This is ostensibly to track fleeing criminals or generate leads after a crime has occurred."While only sensors have been attached to domestic drones so far, the addition of weapons systems appears to be coming. In 2015, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthDakota</a> passed a law allowing police to equip drones with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TearGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TearGas</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RubberBullets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RubberBullets</a>. Also, documents uncovered by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectronicFrontierFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectronicFrontierFoundation</a> show the CBP has suggested adding 'non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize' people to their drones."Laws have always lagged behind the constant march of technology, but the rapid development of drones and drone-mounted surveillance systems is set to pilot America into an omnipresent surveillance state where any and all outdoor activity—and maybe indoor ones if we get wall or roof penetrating sensors—is persistently monitored by police."<a href="https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2022/feb/15/armed-police-drones-are-coming/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2022/feb/15/armed-police-drones-are-coming/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PredatorClassDrone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PredatorClassDrone</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArmedDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArmedDrones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceDrones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DroneWeaponization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DroneWeaponization</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MilitaryState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilitaryState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orwell</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NineteenEightyFour</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeaponizedDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaponizedDrones</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArmedDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArmedDrones</a> and Ethical Policing: Risk, Perception, and the Tele-Present OfficerChristian Enemark, June, 2021"On 29 May 2020 a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PredatorClassDrone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PredatorClassDrone</a> diverted south from its routine patrol of the US–Canadian border and then circled in the sky above the city of Minneapolis for around three hours. Public protests were under way there following the killing of George Floyd by local police officer Derek Chauvin four days previously. The remotely controlled aircraft, operated by US Customs and Border Protection (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CBP</a>), carried no weapons, but it had a mounted camera for transmitting video footage of events on the ground. It was reportedly deployed to Minneapolis to 'aid in situational awareness' at the request of 'federal law enforcement partners.'"Later, however, thirty-five members of Congress criticized this use of a military-grade drone to surveil protesters inside the United States, arguing that such surveillance could be unduly intimidating and could have an unwelcome 'chilling effect' on participation in public life."The deployment for a law enforcement purpose of such a large drone (capable of bearing heavy payloads and flying at high altitudes for long periods) was nevertheless exceptional. Usually, in the United States and elsewhere, a 'police drone' means a small, short-range, multirotor aircraft of the kind produced by civilian manufacturers and widely available commercially. But the use of these drones has generated concerns about the intrusiveness of police surveillance and its impact on individual privacy and freedoms, too. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, police agencies in several countries used drones equipped with cameras (and sometimes loudspeakers) to monitor and enforce public compliance with social distancing rules. Sometimes, this prompted accusations that aerial surveillance in locked-down societies was breaching people's privacy rights and exacerbating a 'police state' atmosphere. The intrusiveness and privacy implications of (unarmed) drone use is an important and well-canvassed ethical issue on its own. It arises in the context of numerous other technological developments with policing applications including, for example, closed-circuit television, long-range audio sensors, and online financial transaction monitoring."In this article, however, the focus of attention is the potential use by police of small drones equipped with weapons as well as cameras, and the concern for human rights extends to the right to life which underpins ethical principles restraining police use of force. During the last two decades, armed drones have been extensively deployed over foreign territories, mainly by the US government. Drone strikes involving guided missiles have been carried out as part of armed conflicts in, for example, Afghanistan and Iraq. In this war paradigm, principles of military ethics (which underpin international humanitarian law) are applicable and these traditionally afford a broad moral permission for killing. By contrast, in non-war situations, where state violence is instead wielded within the peacetime paradigm of law enforcement, a more stringent morality based on human rights is applicable. According to several analyses of foreign drone use, the intentionally lethal use of armed drones 'outside armed conflict' is likely to offend those rights, because the conventional restrictions on using force for law enforcement purposes are difficult to satisfy."In a domestic context, too, a drone-based targeted killing carried out by a government would likely be an abuse of human rights in the form of an extrajudicial execution. However, even if the violent use of a drone to perform a punitive law enforcement function is impermissible for this reason, it remains to be considered whether an armed drone could properly be used as part of a state's protective (policing) effort to enforce the law. When former US president Barack Obama insisted that none of his successors should 'deploy armed drones over U.S. soil,' he was probably envisaging large (Predator-sized) drones launching Hellfire missiles with deliberately deadly effect. This differs, though, from a scenario in which a police officer's intention is not (or not solely) to kill and where they are using a drone armed, for example, with weapons not designed to be lethal. In such circumstances, it is worth asking: how (if at all) might the use of an armed drone satisfy the ethical principles that guide police use of force? And when (if ever) might it be morally permissible for police to use an armed drone against a criminal suspect or to protect public safety?"This article explores such questions by first describing the utility of drone technology for police purposes and then outlining the ethical principles that traditionally guide and restrain police use of force. These principles inform the subsequent discussion of ethical challenges an officer is likely to face when remotely controlling an armed, camera-equipped drone. Drone use promises to reduce police exposure to danger, and this seems likely sometimes to yield the benefit of reduced risk of harm (caused by fearful officers) to criminal suspects and innocent bystanders. Weighing against this benefit, however, is the increased risk to the latter associated with any perception problems experienced by distanced police officers, as well as the risk that police remoteness might make public cooperation with policing efforts more difficult to achieve. At the time of writing, there have been no reports of armed drones being violently deployed by police anywhere in the world. Even so, as the next section shows, the requisite technology already exists, and some corporations, legislators, and non-government organizations have begun to anticipate the advent of police drone weaponization."Read more: <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8367046/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8367046/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceDrones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DroneWeaponization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DroneWeaponization</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MilitaryState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilitaryState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orwell</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NineteenEightyFour</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BLM</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeFloydProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeorgeFloydProtests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurveillanceState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArmedDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArmedDrones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeaponizedDrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaponizedDrones</a>

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