US city deploys camera-equipped planes for surveillance

[rcjordan]

 "developed for use in Iraq"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/city-deploys-camera-equipped-planes-surveillance-200526171705827.html

[ergophobe]

Radiolab did an episode on this when the system was first tested in the US in 2015. Worth a listen
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-sky

[nffc]

Not needed in the UK 

Have enough CCTV cameras to track everybody everywhere 

[ergophobe]

Listen to that podcast. It enables things that CCTV struggles with. Namely, it lets the authorities "rewind the clock" more effectively. Perhaps in the UK (and certainly in China) the CCTV network is assembled in such a way that you can always trace back from one camera to another, but can they, with great confidence, trace a vehicle back from the crime scene to its starting point, many miles away on country roads?