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Saturday, September 12, 2020

Baltimore police spy plane again under attack in court

The Baltimore City police aerial surveillance program, also known as the spy plane, is again under attack in the courts.

The American Civil Liberties Union argued Thursday in a federal appeals court to shut the program down.

Three planes have been flying out of Martin State Airport since May. The arguments in court come as the Baltimore Police Department prepares a report on the spy plane program and whether it's doing anything to reduce crime.

The privately funded aerial surveillance program in Baltimore is in the fifth month of a six-month pilot, and critics continue to try to ground it.

"It's the technological equivalent of having a police officer follow you each and every time they walk out their door," said David Rocah, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Maryland. "It's only because it's being done remotely from a plane that we don't viscerally experience the privacy implication and the privacy impact."


10 comments:

Anonymous said...

How is this any different than all of the rioting fools holding their phones in the air?

Anonymous said...

Haven't the people running these programs ever heard of drones?

Anonymous said...

Baltimore is systemically racist city that needs to be defunded

Anonymous said...

Privacy is expected only in private places. Step outside those confines and presence becomes public. Arguments can be made on a case by case basis, but a wholesale trashing of the tool is uncalled for.

Anonymous said...

@1109 You're an idiot and don't deserve the freedoms and liberty our forefathers bestowed upon you.

Anonymous said...

How is this any different than patrol cars? Just patrol planes? Anyway, we’re already being spied on by cameras on corners and residential Ring cameras used as evidence of people walking or driving by.

Anonymous said...

Spy plane and they still can't stop crime
Give it up Baltimore

Anonymous said...

The ACLU just does not want black crime to be stopped or reported.
This system works in Rio.
They have solved countless murders simply by reviewing the tape forwards and backwards to follow the perpetrators for quick ID.

Anonymous said...

You might as well get use to it. If the Democrats get their New World Order they are fighting for EVERYONE will be watched. SOCIALISM - 101

Anonymous said...

Northwest Woodsman: They should arm those aircraft with 2.75 HE rockets and if anything moves or rioting begins, plant a couple of pairs right in the middle of the crowd. Extreme fear of being out on the street will put a quick end to civil unrest issues.