They also spy when they don’t fly, but they spy when they fly too
Schrödinger’s swine.
Police helicopters are literally expensive. A very notable piece of corruption.
They do provide valuable services like rescue (you can see the winch pod on the side) and search using IR and extremely high definition cameras. It’s not corruption, but I’m not going to deny that they do a lot of surveillance.
Is that Vic or Nsw pol…
Vicpol.
Can confirm these are the Victorian breed of pigs
Where I grew up, there were signs on highways and such saying “Police Aerial Surveillance”, “Police Speed Traps” or whatever. I never found one that didn’t have “Pigs In Space” scrawled on it.
If you don’t get the reference: The Muppet Show.
Decades later, and halfway around the world, I’ll look up at a police helicopter and think, “Oh look: piiiiigs in spaaaaace.”
Pigs in space ahahaha I forgot that.
This gives the police far too much credit.
Sure, the fed do this shit for protests, but I can guarantee you that the pigs don’t have the manpower for a flying-techie-hack-squad like you’re imagining
A lot of larger city departments have drones now, so yes they do.
Do you really not believe that local departments don’t have StingRay’s in their copters or cars, or KingFish’s in their pockets? Harris specifically sells these things to local PD in addition to state and federal agencies.
Also for general knowledge, you can build your own imsi catcher if you want to. While running it is probably illegal if you’re in the US or EU, who really gives a fuck?
They do this regularly in Australia to look for illegal plants etc
