Tragically, last year 506 homicides were counted in Chicago, only 25% were solved. Which means Chicago police solved just 129 of the 506 murders last year–the lowest in 21 years. Superintendent McCarty blamed the dismal 25% rate on a pervasive no-snitch-code. I think that is a cop-out. I agree with Chicago police union president Michael Shields who blames an understaffed and overwhelmed detective division. But I don’t think that will solve the problem either.
I believe using cyber-warfare technology is the solution. I believe a fleet of tiny Nano-hummingbirds may soon patrol the urban battlefield of Chicago. The Hummingbirds Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) has been developed under a contract by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).The Hummingbird is great flying outside, entering a building through an open doorway, or a dangerous alley. This unconventional aircraft could someday provide new reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities in violent neighborhoods in Chicago like Englewood on the south side and Harrison on the west side.
DARPA is funding researchers to build drones that mimic the size and behavior of bugs and birds. They are working on a robotic-hawk-moth with wings made of carbon fiber and Mylar; piezoelectric motors flap the wings 30 times a second, becoming a blur. Because Chicago is a urban city–pigeons, despite their reputation as flying rats, traverse the skies with grace while dropping droppings on angry passersby; their ability to dodge buildings, lampposts, power-lines while traveling at remarkable high speeds will make them ideal models for MIT’s Professor Tedrake to develop a bird-sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). He wants it to have a 24-inch wingspan, capable of flying between 5 to 15 meters per second, navigating dense urban and natural environments and perching like a bird. Micro-UAVs that look like winged, multi-legged bugs that can swarm through alleys, crawl across windowsills, which can sneak up on a gang-banger holding a gun on innocent school children and shoot him in the head. Predators already help Customs and border Protection agents spot smugglers and illegal immigrants sneaking in the U.S. Micro UAVs could do the same thing in crime infested urban neighborhoods in Chicago