a helicopter carrying a Spanish family on a sightseeing tour plummeted into the Hudson River<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cImmediately he says \u2018Is everyone OK?\u201d Daughtry recalled. \u201cDo we have our drones up yet can you please send me a link?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Shooter Shane Tamura killed four people inside the building before fatally shooting himself. AP<\/p>\n
Adams watched as the family of five and pilot were being pulled out of the water, saw efforts to resuscitate them with CPR, and rushed to the scene. <\/p>\n
\u201cI told him, \u2018We\u2019re pulling out victims now and it\u2019s not looking good,’\u201d Daughtry recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he wants to see the drones, he can look real time and he can make decisions from his vehicle,\u201d Daughtry said. \u201cThat\u2019s only for high profile incidents. There\u2019s got to be something that rises to the magnitude where we\u2019re notifying the mayor in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mayor is able to access the drone feed during large incidents. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n
Daughtry has been a staunch cheerleader for the NYPD\u2019s drone program since it started in 2019. The department uses the unmanned aerial vehicles for everything from crimefighting, to search and rescue and disaster response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYPD has about 100 drones at its command and an equal number of police officers who are certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly them.<\/p>\n
In 2024, the NYPD started its Drone as a First Responder (DFR) program, which deploys the unmanned aerial vehicles on 911 calls to get an overview of the scene and improve situational awareness for cops.<\/p>\n
The mayor also got a link to watch rescue efforts after a helicopter crahed into the Hudson River in April. Bruce Wall<\/p>\n
The department also uses drones to locate and rescue swimmers in distress off the city\u2019s beaches \u2014 along with the FDNY \u2014 and detect illegal activities, such as subway surfing.<\/p>\n
Civil libertarians have cried foul, arguing the video surveillance violates privacy rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe drones are a force multiplier and they just add a real time sense of what\u2019s going on,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople said it would not work and it is working here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Adams administration pointed out that shootings and shooting victims are at historic lows in the city because of efforts to take guns off the street, gang takedowns and precision policing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs technology evolves, we are evolving with it \u2014 and drones have become a critical crime-fighting tool that helps our officers do exactly that,\u201d Adams said in a statement. \u201cReal-time camera access for our senior leadership during emergencies or mass protests allows us to keep communities safe and respond to active incidents faster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s watching over Gotham. Mayor Adams has been tapping into NYPD drone footage to get an immediate assessment…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5755,12176,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,65744,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-152087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drones","10":"tag-mayor","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-shane-tamura","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115041884200600295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}