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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 81 points 3 days ago (3 children)

“Normally what would happen… is like one cop would have heard that, flip on the blue lights, race down there… and someone’s about to die,” [Flock CEO Garrett] Langley explained, describing a case in which a woman called 911 on a man, who later turned out to be holding a lighter, not a gun, as initially suspected. “Instead, they launch the drone.”

Langley claimed that “we have thousands and thousands of stories like that where communities are safer now with our drones. They’re safer with our cameras.”

That's your prime example of a community becoming safer? The cops droning a mf because he lit a cigarette and some Karen panicked? You're the CEO of the fucking company with like the worst PR and you say this shit.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

How does that even change the situation to make things safer? Are they gonna crash the drone into a suspect to diffuse a situation? Unless Flock is advertising domestic drone strikes, then the only feasible deliverables are more spying and more profiling.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 28 points 2 days ago

"We know cops are racist so we've lessened their load by making our drones racist too."

"Why are they not clapping"

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I read it as the drones protecting the civilians from the trigger-happy cops rushing in first.