{"id":1239,"date":"2019-03-27T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:59:08","slug":"police-drones-will-patrol-boston-marathon-crowds-for-suspicious-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Police Drones Will Patrol Boston Marathon Crowds For Suspicious Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attendees at this year\u2019s Boston Marathon will notice a new presence overhead\u2014two circling drones. Four years removed from the tragic bombing which injured hundreds and killed three at the marathon\u2019s finish line, authorities plan to use the surveillance devices to monitor the starting line and the runners\u2019 village, where racers prepare and wait for the race to commence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event on April 17th\u00a0is expected to draw\u00a030,000 participants and an estimated 1,000,000 spectators\u00a0to the streets of Boston, and\u00a0those managing the drones are aware that their presence could do more harm than good should the drones come crashing down. So while the aircraft will monitor the starting line crowds and racers, they won\u2019t be situated above spectators. They\u00a0will also be tethered by cables, eliminating the possibility that one could fall far from its designated area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the efficacy of the drones in maintaining safety is speculative at this point, the prevailing sentiment seems to be their presence at the very least may act as a deterrent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first such application for drone surveillance. Last year, drones monitored the Tokyo Marathon for suspicious activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendees at this year\u2019s Boston Marathon will notice a new presence overhead\u2014two circling drones. Four years removed from the tragic bombing which injured hundreds and killed three at the marathon\u2019s finish line, authorities plan to use the surveillance devices to monitor the starting line and the runners\u2019 village, where racers prepare and wait for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}