There's no way that Ring is going to stop people from sharing videos. But making it easy to push a button to submit video to police does enable casual racism.

There's no way that Ring is going to stop people from sharing videos. But making it easy to push a button to submit video to police does enable casual racism. "Oh, there's a suspicious person, I'll submit this video to the police. Click" That person has made a judgement based on looks alone. If it were harder to submit the video (download, attach to email, look up police email address, etc) then there'd be a lot less of that. And for people who are serious about sharing video with the police, those extra steps aren't really an impediment. In short, I think their hearts were in the right places, but the ramifications weren't fully thought out here.