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Who in this program is surveilling or imprisoning themselves? Having a camera on your house, pointed into the street, is the opposite of self-surveillance. It'
by twblalock 5y ago
Who in this program is surveilling or imprisoning themselves?
Having a camera on your house, pointed into the street, is the opposite of self-surveillance. It's a way to surveil people in a public thoroughfare. Some of those people happen to be thieves who steal things from homes and cars, and if they get caught by video surveillance, that's great.
What exactly do the neighborhood residents lose by participating in this surveillance? It's only an upside for them -- they might be able to catch the thieves, with no loss of privacy for themselves.
- spoonjim 5y agoWhat do they lose? They lose if they're the people on the wrong camera at the wrong time and they get picked up for a crime they didn't commit!
- DSMan195276 5y ago... So nobody should put up security cameras outside their house? That's what these are, that's it. In such a situation most people would consider security cameras a pretty good investment. I think it's also worth considering what can happen if there aren't cameras - eye witnesses suck. What if someone (or more than one person) claims to have seen you walking by a house that got robbed, and there's no video to prove your innocence? If people are hyper-aware that crime is happening they're going to be paying extra attention, while probably still doing a very bad job of determining what's actually going on.
- sjg007 5y agoMost ring cameras with audio recording pick up internal conversations.