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NYPD will deploy drones to respond to 911 calls in 5 NYC precincts,officials say
NYPD brass announced the program at a federal hearing in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Police used drones to film and monitor pro-Palestinian protests in Times Square and Bay Ridge in the fall, then turned the footage over to prosecutors to use as evidence in criminal charges against 158 people, Daughtry said at a news conference last year. “This is a local police department that increasingly acts like a national intelligence agency,” Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, previously told Gothamist. The department will outfit precinct rooftops with drone platforms, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said while testifying with other police officials at a federal hearing in Washington, D.C. on Thursday — including three in Brooklyn, one in the Bronx and one in Central Park.
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