For those that live in the NW 10rd - NW 50th, I-44 - I-235 area, does the helicopter traffic all day (from 6 AM to midnight or later) bother you? It seems like it's gone nuts in the past few months - I work from home some days and there are literally a dozen flights over/extremely near our house at NW 36th/May some days (one Sat night, there were 6 of them in 4 hours), sometimes so low it almost rattles the windows. I feel sorry for the folks that live by the Fairgrounds because some news chopper seems to be hovering over the I-44/I-40 interchange every few weeks early in the morning.

What is the deal with all of it? How many choppers do the police have (I assume most, if not all, of the nighttime traffic is theirs)? Is there that much crime that needs them? Do all the TV stations have them? How many of them are medevac flights? Just curious, because it's not just regular outside noise that can be blocked out by louder music or TV volume, and it seems like it's gotten worse recently (used to be we heard a few flights every day or two when we moved here, but 8 years later, it's almost every couple of hours some days).