Police can now shoot runaway criminal's car with the missile on the drone. All you need to do is sitting on a comfy chair in a room, watching on the big screen, putting your hands on the Xbox 360 wireless controller.
Wow, like a child's dream do come true.
Police may deploy spy drones
but...
every time I hear about these things I always recall the short story "Watchbird" by Robert Sheckley - if you haven't read it - highly recommended - as well as other Sheckley stuff... a lot of stuff from his books look like might be 'materializing' soon... ;-))
Used for traffic monitor, nautical navigation, climate detection ... drones can be very helpful for society. However, in the hands of police, using them for surveillance, though you can say it's fighting against crime, but it also can be used spying normal citizens in public and in private.
Do you want to see a drone hovering over your home, checking your kids playing in backyard, watching what you do inside house?
Before police release drones to the sky, government should legislate, issue the safeguard on how to use, who to control the drones.
Do you want to give up your civil rights, or do you want to shoot down the drones with your laser pointer pens?