Police Use Drones To Bust Street Racers

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And it’s becoming more common in North America…

Here in North America some of the police departments in larger cities like Atlanta have been showing off the cutting-edge technology used in helicopters to catch street racers and street takeover participants. While such a crusade certainly can cut down on lawlessness, in Australia police are talking up an even more budget-friendly and scalable approach by using drones to target miscreants gathering to break the law by “hooning” as they say Down Under.

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Drone usage by law enforcement is fairly common in the US and Canada, but we don’t hear much about it being applied to going after street takeovers and street racing. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen because it does. But police in Tasmania are trying to really talk up the practice in a bid to discourage such lawless behavior.