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The wild aspect of this is that nothing seems to have come of it. If you had told me 20 years ago that eventually every single house would have cameras on thei
by dionidium 4y ago
The wild aspect of this is that nothing seems to have come of it.
If you had told me 20 years ago that eventually every single house would have cameras on their front door I'd have guessed that certain types of crime would drastically drop off in response. But in my neighborhood all the cameras mean is that there's video of the package theft or car break-in to post to the neighborhood group so that everybody can complain about it. It doesn't prevent the crime. It doesn't generate more arrests.
It doesn't, as far as I can tell, do much of anything.
- tycho-newman 4y agoIt lowers insurance premiums.
- MollyRealized 4y agoPart of that is that it seems the police are very reluctant to do their job. That is from secondhand anecdote, I'll give you, but I've seen several stories that people have related of bringing Find My results or video to the police only to have the police refuse to follow up on it.
- jimt1234 4y agoI've heard two differing explanations of this (all the cameras having no effect), one of them from a cop: 1. The police can't do anything with your home surveillance videos mainly because of the trustworthiness of the evidence, most of the videos don't clearly show the crook. But there's also the issue of authenticity, which will be a major issue in any court case. 2. Cops are lazy and arrogant. They don't want more work. They don't want a higher expectation of catching crooks. And they certainly don't want people telling them how to do their jobs. A lawyer told me #1. A cop told me #2.
- amatecha 4y agoYeah, the thing I've heard from a cop is to always say "oh, that looks like me, but that's not me". Apparently it's very difficult to prove a person in a video (particularly a grainy surveillance cam video) is a specific person. They apparently tend to rely on the person admitting it's them, and if they refuse, it's a real uphill battle and the footage is borderline useless. Dunno how accurate that is, just what I have heard from a police officer.