In my neighborhood, we are impacted by constant property crime - burglaries, car break-ins, mail theft, porch pirates, you name it. After being a victim myself,

In my neighborhood, we are impacted by constant property crime - burglaries, car break-ins, mail theft, porch pirates, you name it. After being a victim myself, I can say that it does indeed cause an increase in anxiety, especially the sense of helplessness that comes with it. The police department here is woefully understaffed and has been ordered to not focus on property crime because their staffing only leaves room to focus on violent crime. The under-staffing is in part due to the anti-cop sentiment of the far-left activists. This leaves law-abiding residents to largely fend for themselves. I have always felt it would be very useful to be able to identify people in videos who may have committed a crime locally or elsewhere in the city, to learn of their movements, where they might live, what other crimes they committed, etc. This would help police prioritize some non-violent crime effectively, get a high return on the time they spend investigating property crimes (actually catching criminals), which would then in turn serve as a deterrent that is outright missing right now. I would gladly contribute my video to that cause, as would almost everyone in my neighborhood. A word on the commenters here going on about 'pearl-clutching': that's just the latest in pejoratives that are nothing but empty stereotypes. Most people on NextDoor in my city are reasonable, but are regularly unfairly characterized by the far-left progressive cabal in this manner. Caring about the safety of yourself, your loved ones, and your property is not a bad thing. We work and live in part for those very things. If you disagree, then try outlawing door locks. It is unbelievable to me that the rights of criminals are more important to commenters here than the rights of those who want to protect their own. And worse yet, the conspiracy-theory notion that we are about to be taken over by a tyrannical government because of doorbell recordings. If this was a topic they disagreed with, those same commenters would readily call this a "slippery slope fallacy". A further aside: The ACLU has been wrong a lot on this topic - for example when they called AWS's Rekognition service a "facial recognition service" instead of what it is, a generic object recognition service. They also did not seem to understand how false positives/negatives are managed and why it is fine to use an imperfect object recognition service as a first-pass filter. And they are wrong again here - people are allowed to film on public property and share it with whomever they want. They're allowed to perform whatever analysis they want and share it with whomever they want, period.