{"id":42117,"date":"2018-12-30T17:55:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42117"},"modified":"2018-12-30T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T22:55:38","slug":"nypd-to-deploy-drones-for-the-first-time-to-secure-new-years-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42117","title":{"rendered":"NYPD To Deploy Drones For The First Time To Secure New Year’s Party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NYPD To Deploy Drones For The First Time To Secure New Year’s Party<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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In a world where pesky drones are becoming an increasingly greater nuisance – see the embarrassment that was last week’s Gatwick airport shutdown<\/a>– the NYPD is taking the other side and is ramping up security for the city\u2019s annual New Year\u2019s Eve celebration in Times Square with more than 1,200 cameras \u2014 some installed on high-flying drones \u2014 to protect the nearly 2 million expected revelers, police officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

One of the camera-equipped drones will be tethered to the top of a building to prevent potential attacks on the party below, Police Commissioner James O\u2019Neill said at a press conference quoted by the NY Post.<\/a><\/p>\n

“This is the first time we\u2019re going to be using it at a large-scale event,\u201d<\/strong> he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to give us an additional view of the crowd.”<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg reports <\/a>that the drones are being put in place in an attempt to prevent another incident like the shooting in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, in which 59 people who were attending an outdoor concert were killed by a sniper located in a hotel room overlooking the Vegas strip.<\/p>\n

What about bystanders who decide to bring one of their own drones? That would be a bad idea because counter-terrorism cops will also deploy counter-drone technology to protect against attackers, or anyone else for that matter, with anyone caught flying a drone likely to be arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t fly a drone that night\u2026 There\u2019s no need to fly a drone,\u201d O\u2019Neill said. \u201cAnd if you do fly one, there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ll end up getting arrested.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NYPD To Deploy Drones For The First Time To Secure New Year’s Party In a world where pesky drones are becoming an increasingly greater nuisance – see the embarrassment that was last week’s Gatwick airport shutdown– the NYPD is taking the other side and is ramping up security for the city\u2019s annual New Year\u2019s Eve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1007,568,1771,765,4318],"class_list":["post-42117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-drones","tag-new-york-city","tag-nypd","tag-surveillance","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42118,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42117\/revisions\/42118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}