To get around a 2015 drone ban, FL cops use blimps

[Elton Hammonds]

Miami Beach Police Using Surveillance Blimp in Possible Violation of Florida's Police-Drone Ban

 

[PortCanaveralFlorida]

What a waste of taxpayer funds! A command post for the blimp too even, good grief! Next on the spending books will be a Nr.1 Tank, Leopard 2A7 Shipped exclusively from Germany and a Apache AH-64 to keep the beach crowds under control.

 

[Elton Hammonds]

Mobile command centers have commonly used for 20 years. I think they just integrated flight ops into it.

 

[Gray52]

I wonder if it’s got return to home function if someone cuts the tether[emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Kokopelli633]

Makes a lot more sense than a quad/hex/octo copter for something you want on station all day
The rights or wrongs of public surveillance is a separate issue