The city's largest police union blasted a new drone safety program being piloted by Boston Police as ineffective and invasive surveillance technology that's already led to a crash where a drone  destroyed  a car on private property.

The crash involving a Boston Police drone occurred around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3 at 11 Hatherly Road in Brighton, just days after the department touted its new drone pilot program as a potential  tool to improve safety for residents and first responders. 

 Upon arrival, the officer observed the drone … that had crashed in the driveway,  the Boston Police report states.  The drone, which was in pieces, appeared to crash onto a vehicle. 

The officer reported damage to the rear windshield and trunk area of the car, which was a Mazda 3 registered to a 42-year-old man who lived at the Brighton address, the report states.

The man was not home at the time, so the officer left a note on the windshield of the car. The drone company, BRINC, came to collect the wreckage, per the report.

 Their pilot program already crashed and destroyed a car and damaged some property over in Brighton,  Boston Police Patrolmen's Association President Larry Calderone told the Herald Wednesday.  We have a problem with Big Brother. We have a problem with super surveillance.

 The idea of replacing a compassionate police officer who knows how to practice community policing with a robot is something we will never embrace,  Calderone added.

The drone crash came just six days after the Boston Police Department announced it had partnered with Motorola Solutions and BRINC on the  Drone as a First Responder  pilot program.

BPD members who are also certified pilots began operating drones and launch sites in the last weekend of August to assess its value as a tool to improve safety.

The police department said it hopes the unimpeded drones will outpace ground units to the scenes of emergencies, launching  within seconds of a 911 call, or a ShotSpotter activation,  to give dispatchers and officers a clearer view of the situation  so they can assess them more accurately and make an informe

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