Police in Daytona Beach and Elizabeth have been using drones with automated messages designed to disperse crowds while maintaining social distancing
The program will collect images of the city to aid investigations and will pay for research to study if the program impacts the city's crime rate
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Maine is one of two states with a legal provision that allows police departments to conceal any use with surveillance technology
Mayor Bill de Blasio says the cameras are part of ongoing measures to increase NYPD's visibility into those neighborhoods in light of recent anti-Semitic attacks
Learn how livestreaming drone footage gives first responders better benefits beyond visibility
Officials praise the technology's effectiveness while researchers raise surveillance concerns
Rather than ban it all together, legislators are taking a piecemeal approach to regulation through several bills
Community groups opposed the policy, saying software identification is unreliable and racially tinged
Police would use private funding with the goal of decreasing officer call response time
Officers have increasingly turned to the footage to help crack cases, as frequently as 20 times a month
The city became the first in the country to ban the technology
The gunfire led to a standoff with police, who eventually arrested six suspects
The department announced last month that it was disbanding a unit that tracked the everyday lives of Muslims
A special New York Police Department unit that sparked controversy by tracking the daily lives of Muslims has been disbanded
The system, known as wide-area surveillance, is something of a time machine — the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time
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