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> I've been lobbying the HOA members to support installing a prominent camera there to dissuade thieves. Do you actually get thieves or have you worked yourse
by BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> I've been lobbying the HOA members to support installing a prominent camera there to dissuade thieves.
Do you actually get thieves or have you worked yourself up over nothing?
- delichon 2mo agoCongratulations if you've never been burgled. I've been hit by it three big times and dozens of small ones, mostly in suburbia. If you haven't I can see why you would put a higher priority on privacy.
- preg_match 2mo agoMostly because we have almost no proof that cameras actually deter anything, it's just intuition. If I had to guess, burglary happens due to economic factors. How rich are you compared to the people around you. If you're extremely rich and everyone else poor, then yeah, you're gonna be robbed. If Elon Musk moved into my neighborhood and built a 100 million dollar mega mansion, he will be ransacked. He'd have to put up fences and have armed security. That's why he doesn't live in my neighborhood. In the worst case, you're paying the privacy cost for... nothing. You prevent nothing. In the best case, you prevent some thieving. So, I don't know where it lies. We need controlled studies on this for sure, not just intuition.
- delichon 2mo agoMy neighbor caught a burglar on a game cam. The responding deputy recognized him, got my neighbor's property back, and the thief did jail time. That's exactly the result I'm hoping for.