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A Smart Doorbell Company Is Working With Cops To Report 'Suspicious' People, Activities (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Smart doorbell company Ring is making it easier for customers to call the cops on "suspicious" people and activities. The startup, which Amazon acquired for reportedly "more than" $1 billion this year, uses security cameras to let people monitor their entryways. Now, it's launching its Neighbors app -- a platform for reporting crime that, so far, police in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, and the Ventura Sheriff's Department, have access to. "Over the next days and weeks, law enforcement across the U.S. will be joining Neighbors," a Ring spokesperson told me over email.
The app, while presented as a crime-fighting aid, could also be a new place for paranoid people to profile fellow citizens, as similar platforms in the past have turned out to be. According to the company's statement in a press release for Neighbors today: "In addition to receiving push notifications about potential security issues, app users can see recent crime and safety posts uploaded by their neighbors, the Ring team and local law enforcement via an interactive map. If a neighbor notices suspicious activity in their area, they can post their own text, photo or video and alert the community to proactively prevent crime."
The app, while presented as a crime-fighting aid, could also be a new place for paranoid people to profile fellow citizens, as similar platforms in the past have turned out to be. According to the company's statement in a press release for Neighbors today: "In addition to receiving push notifications about potential security issues, app users can see recent crime and safety posts uploaded by their neighbors, the Ring team and local law enforcement via an interactive map. If a neighbor notices suspicious activity in their area, they can post their own text, photo or video and alert the community to proactively prevent crime."
That's not the same thing as just shooting anyone who looks suspicious.
Except that the fight was picked by the guy with the gun, not by the teenager who was "armed" only with a candy bar and a bottle of iced tea. The armed idiot could have followed the advice of the dispatcher instead and the unarmed kid would still be alive today.
Florida endorsed his terrible decision, and has let other similar idiots off the hook for shooting at people who they were afraid of (regardless of whether or not there was any reason for said fear).
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Ummm.. virtually zero worry of being victim of a "crime" but a huge worry about being wrongly detained by the police. I grew up in one of those Ohio communities he mentioned and it was absolutely terrible. The cops regularly detained us as kids for just walking down the street at night (and I'm not even black...)