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LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs

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100 points polalavik | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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BadBadJellyBean ◴[21 Nov 25 22:48 UTC] No.46009959[source]▶
I find it interesting that the question is "why don't they use drones". My question is: why so much air surveillance? I live in Germany. The only times I hear a helicopter is if someone is being rescued or if someones missing. I rarely see them at all.
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Aurornis ◴[21 Nov 25 23:01 UTC] No.46010095[source]▶
> I live in Germany. The only times I hear a helicopter is if someone is being rescued or if someones missing. I rarely see them at all.

Same for me, but I live in America.

The specific location matters a lot. The LA area is more population dense and bigger than might be obvious.

To put it in perspective, the GDP of the LA area is about 1/4 as much as the GDP of your entire country.

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1. rootusrootus ◴[21 Nov 25 23:34 UTC] No.46010376[source]▶
> bigger than might be obvious

That's underselling it a bit, IMO. You can look at an aerial map and observe that it's pretty big, but experiencing it in person ... it's enormous. It just goes, and goes, and goes, and goes ...