{"id":70299,"date":"2017-06-08T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/drone-usage"},"modified":"2017-07-22T18:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T01:43:28","slug":"drone-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/drone-usage","title":{"rendered":"Drone usage by local police, fire departments quickly increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drone-usage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Approximately a dozen police, fire and emergency agencies surrounding Washington, D.C. are using drones to capture criminal suspects and fight fires, but the unmanned aircraft systems also are sparking privacy concerns and legislation.<\/p>\n<p>At least 347 state and local police, sheriff, fire and emergency units in the United States have acquired drones, according to an<a href=\"http:\/\/dronecenter.bard.edu\/public-safety-drones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> April report by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore and more departments in the public safety space, particularly in law enforcement, are acquiring drones for a range of operations,\u201d says Dan Gettinger, co-director of the research group.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2017\/06\/drone-usage-local-police-fire-departments-quickly-increasing\/\">http:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2017\/06\/drone-usage-local-police-fire-...ncreasing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Approximately a dozen police, fire and emergency agencies surrounding Washington, D.C. are using drones to capture criminal suspects and fight fires, but the unmanned aircraft systems also are sparking privacy concerns and legislation. At least 347 state and local police, sheriff, fire and emergency units in the United States have acquired drones, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-law-enforcement","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71199,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70299\/revisions\/71199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}