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NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party (bloomberg.com)
New York City police will deploy a camera-equipped drone above Times Square, along with new "counter-drone technology" blocking other devices from the area, where they expect as many as 2 million New Year's Eve revelers. From a report: The drone technology is the newest innovation developed by the largest U.S. police department as it prepares for an annual event that already features a broad array of anti-terrorism tactics. They will be used along with police airplanes and helicopters as surveillance tools, said Police Commissioner James O'Neill. Police and federal agents have worked with hotel staffs throughout the area in an effort to prevent an incident similar to the sniper who shot to death 59 outdoor concert-goers from a hotel room high above the Las Vegas strip on Oct. 1, 2017. O'Neill said authorities have no evidence of any credible threat of terrorism for New Year's Eve.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/12/28/man-marries-hologram-anime-character-orig.cnn/video/playlists/around-the-world/ Case in point.
It certainly makes sense to use one, or have one available. The cost is trivial given the scale of the event.
I'm guessing that they want a bit better camera system than the typical hobby "drone" (quadcopter) has, so their craft may be a larger than the 10 inches / 250mm normally used by hobbiest. If so, I'd hope they use a hexacopter or septicopter. Quadcopters don't do well when a motor or prop fails. That's not really a problem if it's a little plastic toy like the big box stores sell, but a malfunctiin could be rather inconvenient if their drone is much larger and heavier.
Times Square on New Year's Eve has always been a shitshow made for ignorant tourists. Huge crowds, no bathrooms, long lines, pigs in uniform (NYPD) ticketing people for daring to drink alcohol. Go to a local bar, to to the Central Park run, throw a party in your apartment and annoy the prissy neighbors, take a flight to a civilized city that's not so uptight about people having fun in public.
Those drones in the game Half-Life gave me the shivers whenever I could hear them approaching. Now we've got the real thing in real life. Great. Where's Freeman when you need him?
Honestly, with Dumberican cops being what they are, if it fails while being launched and falls into a crowd of cops, I'd consider it no great loss.
wait! what? that $1000 device falls from the sky, hits a few spectators on the head, lawsuit 1-2 million. yep, well worth the money spent. good planning.
"You will see a lot of officers with a lot of gear and long guns,” said O’Neill." Fuck that party!
> that $1000 device falls from the sky, hits a few spectators on the head, lawsuit 1-2 million.
The $1,000-$2,000 are just a few ounces of plastic, so not a huge deal if it fell on you. Not *desirable*, you don't *want* to drop it on your head, but I'd rather that than a baseball. If you stick your fingers in the prop at full throttle, it hurts pretty bad for several minutes. Guess how I learned that.
However, as I said, I'm guessing NYPD may use one a bit larger, not the popular $1,000-$2,000 ones like the DJ Mavic or Phantom. If they go larger, say a $10,000 device, I hope they use one with more than four props because you definitely don't want a larger device falling if one motor / ESC fails. An octocopter can fly around with a couple of motors dead.
Only one drone? There's probably going to be more people in Times Square than the population of my small town. One drone will not be enough. How about a dozen ED-209?
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I went to Times Square for NYE.
It was *AWFUL*.
There were a bunch of police literally on every block corner, pedestian movement for several blocks from the square was controlled by police and people were fed into holding pens which were staggered up from the Square.
I can understand crowd control given how many people there are. I also saw that the entire area was dead of joy and mirth. Having a dozen cops on every corner, sometimes yelling instructions about what you can or can't do, checking backpacks, it kinda totally and utterly kills any atmosphere of fun deader than a coffin nail.
It was god-awful. You couldn't get anywhere near the square, and no-one, *no-one*, was having fun.
But hey, we were all safe. We were safe *anyway*, because in fact there *was* no one going to do anything crazy, but what else can the police do? they're there to police, they have to be seen to be policing, and then there's no point in being there.
I went down to Central Park. The run was there, plenty of people, not a single cop. It was *nice*.
And shoot them with the most painful toxins we have.
Unless the people are stacked on top of each other at a depth of 10 it will not reach 2 mio. Heck, they can only reach 120,000 if everybody is standing shoulder to shoulder and front to back.
Source:http://time.com/5490304/crowd-times-square-new-years/
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Forty yards away across a wide strip of lawn was a clump of elms, and a small grandmotherly woman sitting on a green towel. She looked like she'd grown there. A stalk of grass protruded between her teeth. I felt we were kindred spirits, and once when I caught her eye I wiggled a forefinger at her, and she waved back.
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It was a good place to watch the world rotate.
A good day for it, too. No clouds at all. On this hot blue summer afternoon, King's Free Park was as crowded as it ever gets.
Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting. Gold dots against blue, basketball-sized, twelve feet up. Each with a television eye and a sonic stunner, each a hookup to police headquarters, they were there to enforce the law of the park.
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First time my ass. Anyone can tell you that police have been using drones in NYC for events and POIs for a while now. Just because they are in some other branch of police force than the NYPD doesn't make them any less of a "New York police force" that is utilizing drones.
The NYPD ruined New Years in Times Square by devoting almost the entire area to crowd control. It's just the set for the TV broadcast now, with lanes kept clear for emergency services far larger than the preposterous holding pens. Some tour groups make deals with the city to get their badge holders through the police lines to the nightclubs. Same thing happens with the 4th of July. Emergency service areas are larger than viewing areas.
Fly a big drone over 2 million people.
A heck of a good idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Decapitation of some random people, anyone ?
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So by them nkw using drones, how will anyone know if it's a "good" or "bad" drone? Now anyone can fly drones above the crowd for whatever reasons.
The military has the Reaper and Predator, aircraft that are commonly called "drones". Toys R Us used to sell the very popular DJI Phantom, an rc quadcopter often used for filming, which also commonly called a "drone".
People don't often confuse a toy store RC boat with a US Navy warship (both "boats"), yet for some reason they do confuse toy store quadcopters (drones) with military hardware or something equally dangerous.
I have grabbed a hobby / filming style drone out of the air by putting my fingers right in the prop. It hurt pretty bad for a few minutes. Not as bad as a few weeks later when I shut my front door on my fingers, though. The door definitely did more damage then the drone did.
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