{"id":62662,"date":"2026-01-02T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62662"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:10:45","slug":"wsj-a-police-drone-might-be-behind-your-next-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62662","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: A Police Drone Might Be Behind Your Next Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/a-police-drone-might-be-behind-your-next-ticket-c25ddf62?st=dTgLig&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">A Police Drone Might Be Behind Your Next Ticket<\/a> by James Fanelli (\u201cLaw enforcement is expanding the use of remotely controlled drones despite concerns of civil liberties groups\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>People lingering at night along the shorelines of a small, affluent city north of Miami have been startled lately when they look up. Drones piloted remotely by local police officers began patrolling the area\u2019s beach this summer during off-limit hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The camera-equipped devices can hover overhead, shine a spotlight at individuals and play a prerecorded message telling them to leave the area. Most comply and leave. \u201cPeople kind of laugh. They take pictures of it,\u201d said Sgt. Jonathan Konetz, who leads the drone unit for the police department in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drones have helped free up resources for the department, which previously had to deploy two officers to patrol the closed beach at night at the expense of other priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While police departments have been using drones in limited circumstances for years, Sunny Isles Beach is among a number of municipalities expanding their use. &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ: A Police Drone Might Be Behind Your Next Ticket by James Fanelli (\u201cLaw enforcement is expanding the use of remotely controlled drones despite concerns of civil liberties groups\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62663,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62662\/revisions\/62663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}