Florida law prohibits police departments from using drones to surveil citizens. So Miami Beach cops instead got a small blimp...
(City Manager Jimmy Morales) Morales' letter admits cops bought the "tethered" surveillance balloon
to get around the state's ban on police drone surveillance. (The ban,
passed in 2015, was dubbed the Freedom From Unwanted Surveillance Act.)...
Morales opines that the small dirigible "provided an ideal vantage point
in an unobtrusive manner, with a sleek, yet friendly look." more