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oh gee, law enforcement using aircraft for surveillance, what a foreign concept.
Exactly. There is a reason the FBI actually recruits applicants with pilot skills/training, and has been doing so publicly since the 1960's.
That said, it's mainly for following criminal activity. I once worked a joint case with the FBI in MN where the pilot was tasked with flying over rural areas to search for a fugitive serial killer. I know of other cases where air assets were used to track the travel of violators.
Air assets are expensive and take a lot of resources to employ. They're also not as effective as other methods: in my second example, obtaining a warrant for a tracking device is much easier, less labor-intensive, and much more likely to result in evidence that can be used in court.
So the idea that the FBI has (or will have) planes buzzing over all US cities just for the heck of it is far-fetched, to say the least.
But if it does happen, tin-foil hats will protect us all, anyway.
Plane surveillance has been around for a while, but began in earnest in the late 2000's when the JTTF began to grow exponentially. This article is woefully behind the times.
Further reason why the Patriot Act should have been left to FULLY expire without this 'Freedom Act' bs
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