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World Service,2 mins

Drones: A tool to help policing or just more surveillance?

Digital Planet

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In Los Angeles, California, the LAPD, one of the largest police forces in the United States, has just approved a one-year pilot programme to evaluate drones in law enforcement. But is the use of drones in policing a good thing, adding another tool to crime fighting, or is this just more surveillance? Journalist and radio presenter Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica is sceptical. (Image: Drone in flight, Credit: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images.)

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