By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-21 19:50:32 | Updated at 2024-12-22 07:07:46
11 hours ago
LI cops can shoot down drones as new high-tech command center unveiled: ‘We don’t want to wait’
New York Post ^ | Dec. 19, 2024, 4:07 p.m. ET | Kevin Sheehan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Posted on 12/21/2024 11:40:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Nassau County cops have gotten the green light to shoot troublesome drones out of the sky — with officials saying they don’t want to wait for something “disastrous” to happen.
The order went out Thursday as county officials unveiled a new state-of-the-art drone command center that can track the mysterious flying crafts from miles away, but they need the feds to sign off on high-tech tools to intercept and take down the drones.
Instead, they’re taking matters into their own hands.
“We don’t want to wait until we have some kind of disastrous event to then say, ‘Well, we could have done this and we could have done that,'” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told reporters.
“The Nassau County Police Department has the authority and certainly has my approval that if there is a mass gathering anywhere and there is a drone that is a threat to the public at large, they have the authority and the jurisdiction and the right to shoot down that drone.”
Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said his team is trained up and ready to roll.
“As far as my snipers go, I have 30 of the best, world-renowned snipers in the country that can hit a quarter a mile away,” he said. “That’s how good they are.”
The announcement comes as the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drone operations over parts of New Jersey and decreed that “deadly force” can be used to bring them down.
The agency said that at least until Jan. 17 unmanned aircraft are barred from flying within a nautical mile of specified airspace outlined in an FAA Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM.
Drone sightings in recent months, primarily over New Jersey and portions of New York, have raised the alarm among locals and security concerns for authorities, who fear foreign agents are behind...
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drones; newsfromgroversmill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Shooting down car-sized drones at an altitude of thousands of feet would be quite a feat without military grade equipment.
2 posted on 12/21/2024 11:41:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I heard they had sensors that could sniff nuclear waste. It seems the energy department(government) lost it as it was being trucked to a disposal site. Couldn’t they ask the drivers?
So they compounded it by sending out the drones at night to avoid scaring people in the daytime. So it’s the Biden Administration compounding one mistake after another. I’m sure Trump knows this.
This idea is not so far-fetched. Iran has problems in Syris, Russia is busy in Ukraine and the Chicoms would know better. It would be an act of war.
3 posted on 12/21/2024 11:48:28 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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