The national press was focused that week on covering the Miami Cannibal incident. By the way, the Miami Cannibal, Rudy Eugene, happened to attend the Urban Beach Week festivities where the drone was spotted.
Granted, there's been a lot of violence at previous Urban Beach Weeks, and the cops can't be everywhere at once. Nevertheless, there still should more of an outcry from the American public about the use of surveillance drones to watch average citizens. Americans are already being monitored by the zillions of closed-circuit cameras in malls, government buildings, and on the streets.
What's more, the small aircraft are operated remotely by military personnel —not the local police—so, whatever information is collected can go right into a federal database. Read More