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Thomas L Mischler's avatar

The helicopters are like building prisons and keeping the death penalty - their use plays well with voters by making politicians who support such things appear to be tough on crime. Many voters respond to such theatrics much more than they respond to the fact that these things don't actually reduce crime rates.

I'm not sure what the solution might be, other than protests to call attention to the problem. Articles like this certainly point us in the right direction.

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Courtney's avatar

I live in an area of LA where we get these flyovers constantly. When they get close to your house it’s really scary. I’m from Texas and was not used to this when I moved here, and thought it meant there was like an active criminal running around who could come in my house and hurt me--I’d close my doors and stuff. I learned quickly that these were just an intimidation ploy by the local police. I used to work across the street from an airport, and it’s kind of like that some days with the number of these invasive species birds flying over.

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