In a report published on October 22, 2013, Amnesty International denounced that the US government, with its secret drone program, had granted its controllers a license to kill outside the scope of international law and could be committing war crimes or extrajudicial executions. The already widespread use of drones also constitutes a headache for the security forces of different countries, as criminals find in them a new tool to circumvent the law. An example was last July in South Carolina, when the police intercepted one that intended to land in the state prison with mobile phones, tobacco and marijuana. Drugs by air. On a larger scale, Mexican drug traffickers build their own designs to transport large consignments of narcotics to North America. But the great fear of the authorities is that terrorist groups will resort to them to carry out massive attacks, crashing them with explosives or dropping bombs on military or civilian targets. Without going any further, Hamas has already released several videos showing its own drones, with which they threaten to attack targets in Tel Aviv.
On the other side of the coin, this technology also serves to prevent illegal acts from being committed . This is the case of the state of Morelos, in Mexico, one of the most punished by drug trafficking, where a year ago the acquisition of five unmanned flying machines to monitor human activity from the sky was announced . In another American country, Colombia, the former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, recommended to President Juan Manuel Santos its use to combat crime and guerrilla attacks, as well as to reduce citizen insecurity.
