re: #72 erik_t

No, they don’t. Not in any meaningful sense. They’re still being operated by humans on a 1:1 basis.

I worry about drones because:

a) as we’ve seen this last week, if the police get jumpy or go glory hound and fire on cars and people who aren’t the same make/model/race as the suspect, imagine if you have weaponized drones operated by a human who falls into the same trap.

b) it’s not a stretch to imagine the justification for using drones on a man hunt for a domestic ‘terrorist’ to become a justification to arm the drones and use them without regard to due process.

Maybe I’m a tin foil hatter on this but I never want to see militarization of our police force. We’ve got way too much militarization in our police force already.