Surveillance Technology For Law Enforcement

There are many ways the government uses surveillance; one way is by using Spy drones. Spy drones are used to fly around the United States and “check” on the country for anything unusual, including drug activity, border patrol concerns, and other domestic issues. Even though the government claims spy drones are protecting Americans they are clearly invading privacy and breaking the Fourth Amendment as well, they should not be used.

The purpose of this research paper is to show how unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as UAV’s or drones infringe on the Fourth Amendment and Due Process of the law.

Menacing spy craft... unmanned aerial vehicles... and missile laden predators. These are the images that come to mind when the word "drone" is spoken. Taken to new heights during the Global War on Terror, military drones have struck fear into the hearts of America's enemies. Now the U.S. government is starting to look inward toward its next target: the American people. Already starting along the US/Mexico border, big brother is indiscriminately watching whole neighborhoods via high tech zoom and heat imaging technology. There is even a debate in congress as to whether it is lawful for an American citizen to be killed by a missile firing drone. These actions and debates have caused legitimate concerns for the American people in regards to

A career in front of the camera is the dream job for numerous Americas. Little do they know they may have already been on camera. Every day people in the United States of America are caught in the lens of law enforcement cameras. These cameras sound nefarious due to their constant watching of people. However, law enforcement cameras are anything but nefarious as their intent is to stop actions that may rightly be deemed nefarious. The cameras the law enforcement use may be on the street, a member of the law enforcement, a police car or a traffic light. With all the cameras, their purpose is for the good of the people and to enforce laws. However, there is controversy surrounding the usage of the law enforcement cameras due to how some people

Municipalities all across the United States are starting to use unmanned Arial drones to supplement their policing strategy such as in Arlington, Texas. The Supreme Court has ruled on the use of drones in the court case California V. Ciraolo, which determined that “an individual’s private property is not protected by the Fourth Amendment as long as an aircraft is in navigable airspace; in this case, the altitude was 1,000 feet. “The Fourth Amendment simply does not require the police traveling in the public airways at this altitude to obtain a warrant in order to observe what is visible to the naked eye,” the Court said.” (Bomboy, Constitution Daily 2017). This means that drone footage can be used by police without the need for a warrant. There is a time for everything in life, the questions before the New Orleans community is simple. If not now, when? If not us, who? The very definition of insanity is to do the same and expect a different result; as this paper has illustrated we have and are doing the same thing for a long time. Perhaps now, we can try something

In my personal opinion, the usage of body worn cameras in law enforcement have been very beneficial for officers, lawyers, judges, solicitors, and the public as well. I agree, some officers tend to forget to activate and deactivate their body worn cameras before and after they have made contact with the citizens. As you stated in your passage, many law enforcement agencies have implemented a policy to govern their officers when they fail to follow their body worn cameras protocols. These implementation is the most effective way to assure that law enforcement officers are not thoughtless when it comes to activating their body cams before they interact with the public.

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have become a quickly growing part of the aviation community over the last five to ten years. More and more of these aircraft are flying in the National Airspace System (NAS) with each passing year, without any set rules governing their operation. With the growing population of UAS in the NAS, for military, civil, and commercial use, the need for regulation is becoming increasingly obvious. How to regulate this type of aircraft is no simple task. Taking into consideration the many factors of these aircraft such as size, purpose, who is using them, and location of use, it is difficult to determine what regulation is required. That is the task that has been set before the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). To determine what type of regulation is needed to integrate and ensure the safe operation of UAS in the NAS since the skies that they share are shared with manned aircraft.

Since the invention of the plane and other flying machines, there has been the thought of making an unmanned flying machine. Today we know our unmanned aerial vehicles by another name: drones. In my paper I will be using both Colonel Dawn Zoldi’s article about drones at home and “The Drone as Privacy Catalyst”, by Ryan Calo to evaluate privacy-related matters that people should consider when it comes to drones. Zoldi’s analysis of how the government can help with personal privacy and unwarranted use of unwarranted searches will aid my own analysis. I will focus on drones and how they relate to the fourth amendment, taking a nuanced approach to operational purpose, renewing focus on collection, dissemination and retention, molding the remedy to the violation, drone as privacy catalyst and finally adding my own thoughts and criticisms about how this could possibly affect privacy.

I, Savannah Parmelee believe an individual's right to privacy should be protected if they do not violate the law to a certain degree therefore, I plan to seek out evidence during my research that supports this controlling idea. I am greatly concerned about this topic due to the people’s privacy not being fully protected for both terrorist and by the government.In the video “Impact of drones on privacy rights” on “CBS This Morning” claims that “Lakota, N.D., is the first known site where a drone was used domestically to help arrest a U.S. citizen.” What the quote is saying is that drones helped arrest a U.S. citizen. The incident in the video proves that drones can help see illegal activities happening and can try to stop

Government surveillance in the past was not a big threat due to the limitations on technology; however, in the current day, it has become an immense power for the government. Taylor, author of a book on Electronic Surveillance supports, "A generation ago, when records were tucked away on paper in manila folders, there was some assurance that such information wouldn 't be spread everywhere. Now, however, our life stories are available at the push of a button" (Taylor 111). With more and more Americans logging into social media cites and using text-messaging devices, the more providers of metadata the government has. In her journal “The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit”, Anita L. Allen, an expert on privacy law, writes, “Contemporary technologies of data collection make secret, privacy invading surveillance easy and nearly irresistible. For every technology of confidential personal communication…there are one or more counter-technologies of eavesdropping” (Allen 1). Being in the middle of the Digital Age, we have to be much more careful of the kinds of information we put in our digital devices.

Recent media stories have caused uproars among communities and riots against law enforcement agencies due to publications of pictures or video footage of law enforcement officers exhibiting the use of force. Due to these recent cases, many are requiring a reform in the surveillance of law enforcement officers to provide viable evidence to support their case on the degree of force they used during the incident in question. One of the majorly used and promoted reforms is the use of body worn cameras on all officers during their shift. Research and studies have promoted this technique as it offers many advantages to help resolve the issues faced. Body worn cameras provide agencies with video footage of all occurrences as if through the

Chicago has always had a long history of having a significantly higher crime rate than the rest of the country which is why it is not surprising that the city has re-invented itself into the largest network of police operated video surveillance this nation has ever seen. The former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff even stated in an interview about the police observation cameras, “I don’t think there is another city in the U.S. that has an extensive and integrated camera network as Chicago has.” [CITE THIS]

While the debate over the use of drones for counterterrorism efforts has intensified, the arguments, both for and against their usage, although informed by plausible logics, are supported primarily by anecdotal evidence and not by systematic empirical investigation. This lack of attention is unfortunate: unmanned aerial vehicles, and

Many questions go unanswered when questioning the Criminal Justice System’s tactics to apprehending criminals in the past, present, and future. For a while the Criminal Justice system thought polygraph tests were the answer to minimizing all around crime becoming a controversial solution to a rising problem. Recently, forensic investigations have revolutionized their methods to better DNA fingerprinting to detain criminals; This becoming the next best thing other than local police and first responders using Mini Drones as an extra tool in stopping offenders who are in pursue. According to Liberty Pen, “Mini Drones would be for specific missions such as finding a lost person, monitoring traffic, or for crowd control becoming a tool for mass surveillance by the government”.

The reader trusts that what God has made for good man has made it evil. The reader believes that before there was technology, individuals believed that they were safe because they had no reason to feel unsafe. According to the Webster definition, safe mean to be free from harm or risk and secure from the threat of danger, harm. Individuals are most often fearful because we are told to be, meaning that fear is a learned or taught behavior. The Big Brother system was put into place to keep the American citizens safe for terrorist and other hate groups, however, because of the advancement of technology anyone can obtain information regardless the situation. In today's society surveillance technology is a way of life which makes it hard not use