The Concord Police Department will be hosting a series of Zoom meetings regarding the potential creation of a Public Safety Unmanned Aerial Systems (drone) program, and they are looking for input from the community.
Beginning on Monday May 10, the meeting series will take place on Monday and Tuesday evenings, between 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Each meeting will cater to specific Concord neighborhoods and all neighborhoods will be reached by the end of the series.
The Police Department will post the announcements and links on their Facebook and Twitter pages.
Please direct any questions to Administrative Services Lieutenant, Nick Gartner at 925-671-5095, or via email at nicholas.gartner@cityofconcord.org.
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Cameras at every intersection are not enough? They want to look into backyards too?
unconstitutional
Just a matter of time before City starts using them for code enforcement violations to generate revenue.
I actually trust these for use by the Concord Police Department…. certainly a lot more than Obama’s drones!
Obama started the policy of murdering foreign civilians with drones and Trump continued that policy.
Making flying police robots a normal way of life- what could go wrong?
I would have preferred robotic police dogs patrolling neighborhoods. They really strike fear into the criminally inclined.
no real problem but why does it have to be a zoom only thing
why the shroud
let us all know so when and if we decide we can address it at the zoom
and not be told at the zoom this is what the city council and dem politicians want the police to do
i dont find any reason for the ss to be flying around at our expense
you all ready have access to a helicopter
now if your platform is to hover over bum camps and track known trouble makers and make arrests when they violate parole or self parole or self rehab or self intervening or self what ever that the dems are so proud of
inform us before the meeting or yeah its just more control over the actual working and tax paying people while the dem politicians let everyone else do what ever they want
The drone commander ready for the pool parties. so put on a good show folks.
Aren’t the Black Ops helicopters and Chem-trails from jets not enough?
Oh, I see what they’re up to….defund the police and send drones to domestic disputes instead of actual officers. How clever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/technology/police-drones.html
Might work like this.
Well, as the highest paid and most top heavy police department in the Bay Area they do have lots of money, just like at (or feel) our streets!!!
Highest paid? Your’re joking right?
Look at what the average CPD cop makes compared to Richmond PD, Antioch PD, BART PD, San Ramon PD, or Walnut Creek PD.
Concord is on the lower end of the Bay Area pay scale for police.
Some police departments use drones during vehicle chases during heavily traffick or when speeds become dangerous and the police cars stop and drones take over to avoid possible crashes. I’m all for it if it aids the department to make the community more safe.
Hope the City adds in the cost of the lawsuits that will be coming before the first drone flys.
Maybe the drone could locate the residence of citizens who object to the use of this device. Because that objection will no doubt be a crime one day.
Actually @Bob, Concord isn’t even close to being the highest paid in the Bay Area. Not even top 10.
I tried to join a paranoid anonymous group once but they wouldn’t tell me where the meetings were held.
So much for nude sunbathing in the backyard 😎
I don’t like this idea, but then again I don’t need to worry, because I don’t live in Concord.
Horrible idea, will be abused within 24 hours of being put in place.
Remember before 9/11 when we had privacy, before the boomers willingly signed it away?
It starts with a drone or 2, where does it stop?? What happens to the data they collect? It should be public record, but will it ?? Who oversees it, no doubt the police, or a police friendly agency, overseeing themselves. Once allowed, it will never be discontinued.
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