Where I grew up, there were signs on highways and such saying "Police Aerial Surveillance", "Police Speed Traps" or whatever. I never found one that didn't have "Pigs In Space" scrawled on it.
If you don't get the reference: The Muppet Show.
Decades later, and halfway around the world, I'll look up at a police helicopter and think, "Oh look: piiiiigs in spaaaaace."
They get birds to do their dirty work around me. And not like in a "birds aren't real" way; they train hawks to fly over the highways and use things attached to the birds to monitor traffic.
They do provide valuable services like rescue (you can see the winch pod on the side) and search using IR and extremely high definition cameras. It's not corruption, but I'm not going to deny that they do a lot of surveillance.
Sure, the fed do this shit for protests, but I can guarantee you that the pigs don't have the manpower for a flying-techie-hack-squad like you're imagining
Do you really not believe that local departments don’t have StingRay’s in their copters or cars, or KingFish’s in their pockets? Harris specifically sells these things to local PD in addition to state and federal agencies.
