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Re:Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be comi... by Sebb767 on Saturday August 31, 2024 @05:45PM (#41412253)
With cars, you have a license plate that will usually lead you to the owner. Identifying some random person, possibly with a hood, on noisy camera night vision is a lot harder; when you don't have a reasonably small pool of suspects, it's basically impossible.

Even if it would be possible to identify people with a combination of cell phone area warrants and/or by following all cameras around, this level of effort would be far too high (and too invasive) for small crimes like theft and vandalism.

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Re:Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be comi... by xyzzy123 on Saturday August 31, 2024 @07:45PM (#41412917)
It's often a small pool of "suspects" though. Like "same group/person it was the last 3 times".

I think most camera operators make peace with the idea that randos / one offs probably can't be identified. What really aggravates people is repeated behaviour. Many people who install cameras particularly want to know "am I being targeted" vs "this is a random thing".

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