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Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting
Tiger4 writes "The mayor of the City of Lancaster in the Antelope Valley of southern California is considering a high-definition video flying platform to aid in crime fighting. The aircraft, would circle the city constantly, able to zoom in on activity spots instantly. 'You never know when you are being watched or followed. It would be stupid to commit a crime. You see it with such detail,' said Mayor R. Rex Parris, who took a ride last week in a camera-equipped airplane with pilot Dick Rutan. 'I have every hope that Lancaster will be the first city to deploy it. I've never been so excited about anything.' Dick Rutan is the same pilot who flew around the world non-stop in the Voyager, custom built by his brother Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites in Mojave." The aircraft is nothing special, a garden-variety Cessna or the like, but "the camera is an example of technology developed for and used by the military making a transition to civilian applications, Rutan said."
According to Barack Obama and his sycophant news lapdogs, mexican drug lords buy all their assault rifles, machine guns, grenades, anti-aircraft missiles, rocket launchers, etc at gun shows in the US. I'm sure American drug lords could do the same.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
It's not just companies selling snake oil that's creating these problems, or politicians who don't give a damn about privacy. The third problem is: selfish, short-sighted, self-centered conservatives. You know, the ones always demanding tax cuts and that rates go up by not so much as a dime, so cities, counties, and states are forced to look towards other sources of revenue to pay for basic services.
Like raising sin taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and traffic violations.
So, all you conservatives that hate red light cameras AND vote against any and all taxes, take your rage out on the nearest mirror until you learn that low taxes have high costs.