A US Sheriff's Department is Launching an Unmanned Helodrone that Could Carry Weapons

A US Sheriff's Launching Unmanned Helodrone

A sheriff's office in the US state of Texas is taking a big and potentially controversial step forward with a new piece of law enforcement technology.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Conroe, Texas, is prepping its deputies to fly a US$300,000 unmanned ShadowHawk helicopter paid for with a Department of Homeland Security grant, that someday might carry a weapons payload.


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This wouldn't mark the first time a law enforcement agency has put a drone in the air, but the potential for carrying anything besides a surveillance payload is unprecedented as far as we've heard.
There won't be any Hellfire missiles here, but ShadowHawk - built locally by a company called Vanguard Defense Industries - is designed to carry a range of less-lethal payloads, including Taser-esque weapons that deliver an electric charge or a firearm that fires beanbag rounds known as stun batons.

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But weaponised law enforcement drones? Even loaded with a non-lethal payload the Montgomery Country Sheriff's Department is dipping its toes in uncharted waters.
Texas, out of all the American states with their myriad of novel ways of dealing with criminals, perhaps has a reputation for dealing unsympathetically with lawbreakers, but Texans are also fiercely protective of their civil liberties.
There no telling how this one will shake out, but if Montgomery County can make a success of its drone deployment this could mark the beginning of a larger trend in law enforcement and a larger, more hands-on role for robotics.

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Sympathy? For law-breakers? It's a choice to break the law. The people who choose not to break the law do not get a reward, so law breakers shouldn"t receive any sympathy. They actually make life more difficult for the law abiding citizen. They are "cheating", so to speak.

I'm glad law enforcement continues to use technology to catch those cheats.

You know I'll bet some dude is sitting in an engineering lab somewhere saying- thank god I built rc planes as a kid, I'm making tons off it now. I love my job.

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