Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves (Published 2020)
In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/technology/police-drones.html
When the man left the car, carrying a gun and a bag of heroin, a nearby police car had trouble following as he sprinted across the street and ducked behind a wall. But as he threw the gun into a dumpster and hid the bag of heroin, the drone, hovering above him, caught everything on camera. When he slipped through the back door of a strip mall, exited through the front door and ran down the sidewalk, it caught that, too.