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But people want to be able to see what's going on at home while they're away, either at work or on vacation. That's the use case these cameras were invented for
by glitchc 4y ago
But people want to be able to see what's going on at home while they're away, either at work or on vacation. That's the use case these cameras were invented for.
- nequo 4y agoThat is not the only use case. Another important use case is to see who broke into your home so that the police can find them.
- dyingkneepad 4y agoExcept that in 2023 the police won't even try to look for them. Maybe if you can provide their real address they will consider perhaps doing something about it.
- nequo 4y agoDo actual photos or video footage not help solving burglaries? I have tried looking for statistics on this. The Pew Research Center[1] wrote this in 2020: When it comes to property crime, law enforcement agencies cleared 18.4% of larcenies/thefts, 14.1% of burglaries and 13.8% of motor vehicle thefts. 14.1% is very low. But this figure is not broken down by the type of evidence available to the police. Can a large part of the 14.1% be cases where recordings from security cameras were available? [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about...
- fnordpiglet 4y agoUsually you have to go to the address and be murdered before the police would fall up on the address.
- tedivm 4y agoMy wife and I have cameras in our home for this purpose. They're unplugged until we leave for vacation, and once we get back they're unplugged again.
- jollyllama 4y agoThe implementation wasn't great but SimpliSafe used to have these cameras with an automatic reflective (so you could see it) shutter on them; it was a good concept and I went with it because of that.