A cop takes about six minutes to reach a shoplifting call. The drone takes 97 seconds. That four minute gap was the entire business model of grab-and-run theft, and it just closed. In Chula Vista, the department that invented drone-first response, the aircraft launches while the 911 call is still in progress, ignores every red light, and beats patrol to the scene almost every time. Then it just follows you. A dispatcher reads your position to ground units while you wander a parking lot thinking you got away. The two suspects in this clip aren't even running hard. Why would they? For their entire careers, walking fast was enough. The wild part is how quickly this scaled. For years the FAA choked these programs with paperwork. Then between April 2025 and February 2026 it cleared over 1,000 police agencies to fly drones beyond visual line of sight. The previous seven years combined produced 976. Motorola just led a $125M round into BRINC with the stated goal of putting a 911 drone on every one of America's roughly 80,000 police and fire station roofs. Chula Vista's data shows where this ends up. 25,000 missions. A role in 4,138 arrests. And on 4,629 calls, no officer showed up at all, because the drone alone settled it. Petty theft survived for decades on a head start. The head start is gone.