{"id":343267,"date":"2018-01-11T07:17:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-lapd-takes-another-step-toward-deploying-drones-in-controversial-yearlong-test\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:17:24","slug":"prison-planet-com-lapd-takes-another-step-toward-deploying-drones-in-controversial-yearlong-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-lapd-takes-another-step-toward-deploying-drones-in-controversial-yearlong-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb LAPD takes another step toward deploying drones in controversial yearlong test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-lapd-drone-money-20180109-story.html\"><strong>LA Times<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 10, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Los Angeles Police Department took another step toward using drones in some tactical situations after its civilian bosses Tuesday approved a $31,500 donation to purchase the controversial devices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The LAPD has yet to fly any drones. The yearlong pilot program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-lapd-drones-20171017-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved by the Police Commission last fall<\/a>, won\u2019t begin until the department buys the drones and teaches officers how to use them.<\/p>\n<p>The donation from the Los Angeles Police Foundation will go toward four drones, Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala told police commissioners at their weekly meeting Tuesday. Each are from DJI, a tech company specializing in drones with offices worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Girmala said the LAPD plans to use drones of varying sizes and capabilities: one small-sized, half-pound \u201cSpark\u201d model; two three-pound \u201cPhantom\u201d models; and a \u201cMatrice\u201d model that is the largest, weighing 10 pounds and measuring about 25 inches diagonally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-lapd-drone-money-20180109-story.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, January 10, 2018  at  9:23 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/lapd-takes-another-step-toward-deploying-drones-in-controversial-yearlong-test.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/lapd-takes-another-step-toward-deploying-drones-in-controversial-yearlong-test.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA TimesJanuary 10, 2018 The Los Angeles Police Department took another step toward using drones in some tactical situations after its civilian bosses Tuesday approved a $31,500 donation to purchase the controversial devices. The LAPD has yet to fly any drones. The yearlong pilot program, approved by the Police Commission last fall, won\u2019t begin until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}