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I didn’t realize Mayor Eric Adams loved tech so much.

Here I am learning that he’s a tech-lover, and I didn’t even know that.

New York Post:

Central Park frolickers could soon find themselves under Big Brother surveillance from NYPD drones flying above them, as the iconic green space struggles with a whopping crime increase.

Tech-loving Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday floated the notion and also using nebulous other “new technology” to deal with a worrisome surge in sex crimes, assaults and robberies in Central Park — including an incident involving three teenage muggers targeting a trio of park-goers that very morning.

“I think with such a vast large area, we could do a better job in using drones to police the area from the sky,” Hizzoner said during his weekly news conference with reporters.

The NYPD, pressed for more details by The Post, forwarded previous testimony from a deputy commissioner on Capitol Hill in which the higher-up said the department would be testing drones to respond to ShotSpotter gun-detection alerts.

“The Department anticipates drones to be operational at the Central Park Precinct in the coming weeks,” an e-mail from a rep said.

Okay, well.

Okay.

Are the drones going to drop hand-grenades, like in the Ukraine videos we all watch on Telegram?

Because if not, I don’t see what good these drones are going to do.

They are going to record the crimes?

The crimes are already recorded.

What good is video of a crime?

It’s not like the police are going to rush in as soon as they see a live drone feed of a crime. If anything they are going to be like “let’s keep our distance from that, we don’t want to end up like Derek Chauvin.”

But even if the cops were not scared to death to arrest blacks, here’s the thing: after people commit a crime, they run away. So unless the police are right near by, the video does not help at all, and if they’re right near by, they don’t need the video anyway.

This seems like a more of an excuse to do a dystopian, Half-Life type thing, where we just have drones flying everywhere watching people all the time.

Remember the drones in Half-Life 2, kids?

Kids these days.

The don’t even remember Half-Life 2.

They would know about Half-Life 3, if it were to ever be released, but Eric Adams will stop crime in New York before that happens.