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‘We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones:' SFPD accepts billionaire’s $9.4M gift (missionlocal.org)
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The San Francisco Police Commission unanimously accepted a nearly $9.4 million donation Wednesday night to expand the police department’s drone program and add 10 new drone take-off sites.

“This is by far the largest one-time donation I think we’ve ever considered,” said police commissioner Kevin Benedicto. The Board of Supervisors will vote on the gift later this month.

The donation was proposed last week by Ripple Labs, a San Francisco-based crypto company run by billionaire Chris Larsen, and the San Francisco Police Community Foundation, a nonprofit that Larsen founded in 2023. Larsen has been a long-time proponent of increasing the SFPD’s use of technology and donated $250,000 to the passing of Prop E.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are going to be a lot of cops using those to creep on women.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For 500 bucks you can get a Co2 powered net throwing gun.

Also, fuck the people who tried to argue against me about drones.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Or another drone that drops nets

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Relatedly, Silicon Valley wants to ban Chinese drones while ‘covering’ San Francisco in their own

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We really need to work on solid DIY methods of disabling and destroying these, before the revolution kicks off. Oil and paint works pretty well at covering the robot dogs.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pellet guns are easy I guess.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Really netting on another drone would be a solid option for the ones at lower altitude.

[–] bigpEE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

And doing it without them falling on a protestor

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To protect and serve…

cracker s

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh they protect and serve alright, just not the public.