The NYPD’s use of drones as a strategic, emergency response saves lives on our subway system and streets,” the department said in a statement, “allows for an immediate ...

The rollout of the technology comes after seven people drowned at the city’s public beaches last summer, the most since 2019.

As part of the city’s 2025 Summer Safety Plan, the NYPD, FDNY and other agencies will deploy more officers and advanced technology, including drones, to monitor the water and improve emergency ...

He told lawmakers the NYPD currently has 85 drones and, in 2023 ... Albert Fox Cahn founded the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. He says the department's use of drones violates the ...

this kind of drone use does indeed feel dystopian — or, as Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project put it to The Record, as if the NYPD was treating "Black Mirror" as an ...

The drones, which have also been used to respond to tragedies like a garage collapse and recent brush fires in the city, do not contain facial recognition technology, the NYPD has said.

A photo obtained by The Post shows an NYPD officer holding ... spokesperson told The Post that the drone was used in a demonstration of its clean energy technology three years ago, and had been ...

Advances in drone technology mean newer models are lighter ... More recently, the NYPD drew backlash from local residents and privacy groups last summer after they used the drones to “check ...