US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than) a few good drones

Re:US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than... by sturadnidge on Saturday October 06, 2012 @09:21AM (#4620441)

I was watching a documentary the other day about border smuggling - surely it's only a matter of time before drones are used for that, in which case what hope has domestic law enforcement got if they don't go down the same path.

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Re:US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than... by revelation on Saturday October 06, 2012 @10:05AM (#4620543)

Smugglers have used submarines. Law enforcement has already "no hope", and that is entirely by design. If you want LE and criminals to be equal then you end up in a country run by criminals.

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Re:US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than... by mmagin on Saturday October 06, 2012 @11:30PM (#4622519)

No, there is more than the technical advantage held by police which factors into this. There is also the extent to which the mass of people tend to believe whether it is better to do things in a law-abiding manner or whether legal authority is completely disrespectable and not worth obeying.

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Re:US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than... by mobweb on Saturday October 06, 2012 @10:43AM (#4620637)

There was a post here on HN not too long ago about exactly this. Drug cartels using ultralight drones to smuggle drugs across borders.

Found it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4415508

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Re:US Department of Homeland Security looking for (more than... by gnaritas on Saturday October 06, 2012 @10:17AM (#4620583)

Preventing drug use has always been a lost cause anyway, there never was hope to be had on that path.

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