Baltimore Police have released data showing that a surveillance plane secretly flew over the city roughly 100 times, taking more than 1 million snapshots of the streets below.
Police held a news conference where they released logs tracking flights of the plane owned and operated by Persistent Surveillance Systems, which is promoting the aerial technology as a cutting-edge crime-fighting tool.
The logs show the plane spent about 314 hours flying over eight months.
The program began in January and was not initially disclosed to Baltimore's mayor, city council or other elected officials. Now that it is public, police say the plane will fly over the city again when Fleet Week gets underway on Monday, as well as during the Baltimore Marathon on October 15.
