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My Nextdoor devolved into multiple houses on my street setting up a shared Nest/Google account and rigging up a dozen or so cameras to watch their entire stretc
by synicalx 4y ago
My Nextdoor devolved into multiple houses on my street setting up a shared Nest/Google account and rigging up a dozen or so cameras to watch their entire stretch of the street 24/7. All this because someone thought their car was vandalised (turns out it was vandalised in the parking lot of a mall ~10km away).
For context we live in a somewhat isolated, well off suburb, that according to police data has had a grant total of 63 crimes committed in it during the last 12 months, 41 of which were just people vandalising the same abandoned building.
- pyuser583 4y agoThe phrase “overpolicing” used to refer to wealthy, low crime suburbs that spent insane amounts of money on police. There was a study on this, and California is one of the worst offenders. There a rich hamlets with not crimes to speak of that hire retired FBI agents and Navy Seals to issue parking tickets. This is a great example: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1 https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1