The "selling fear" narrative seems pretty far fetched and cherry picked. Crime happens regardless of your opinions. Reporting it might actually make a differen

The "selling fear" narrative seems pretty far fetched and cherry picked. Crime happens regardless of your opinions. Reporting it might actually make a difference since it will at least help people be aware of their area safety and attempt some organized effort to address it. Yes, the way to address it might be buying security devices and yes, Amazon could profit from this (but not necessarily). Either way, crime will happen regardless and this has nothing to do with Amazon or Ring. It's not like they are actually putting criminals in the streets or making up stories about crime to boost sales. The article make it almost sound like that. The dichotomy here is whether you want to know if crime is happening around you or you want to be oblivious about it for whatever reason or belief. That sounds more like a choice, not like an imposition. If you're going to demonize reporting facts or news about crimes, and you are going to raise concerns about the potential conflicts of interest between reporting and profits, you should start first with a sound judgement of journalism as a whole. As far as I know most newspapers and media outlets are for-profit businesses, so their motivations might be as obscure. And this includes, The Atlantic, the publisher of this very article. And that actually reminds of a wise spanish saying that seems like a good fit for this journalistic piece: "El ladrón juzga por su condición" ... That means "The thief judges by his condition"...