Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras
by tehlike on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:12AM
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The local law enforcement will likely not have the time to chase individual small cases either...
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Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras
by repeekad on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:12AM
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Careful what you wish for, local cops have already abused cameras and license plate readers to arrest people just for driving by the location and looking similar to doorbell video, over package theft...
Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras
by lifestyleguru on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:17AM
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In Poland some moron in surveillance center visually profiled a random guy as one wanted person (by jacket color), then police took the guy to the police station and beat him to death.
Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras
by theodric on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:34AM
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Wow. What an infuriating case, again and again. Only 2 years in prison for the perps because the court decided that "excited delirium" killed the guy and not being beaten and tased 4 times.
Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras
by antihero on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:27AM
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And some of the protestors that protested this got 4+ years. Clearly police property has more rights than a human being.
Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras
by mrguyorama on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:15PM
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The guys who beat Rodney King faced zero justice, American prison guards pretty regularly do horrific things and face little repercussion, and the guys who executed Pretti were working the next day, until that led to backlash and now they are being systemically protected.
In some states in the US, it is not illegal for a cop to have sex with someone they have arrested. Ain't that just dandy.
The Polish situation could be an upgrade.
Re:Ring owners are returning their cameras
by close04 on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:41AM
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Even if they do, “crime scene” camera footage is less useful than the victims expect. Cameras discourage thieves of opportunity but not someone who has their mind set on taking your stuff. A simple cap or mask, some sunglasses, a few strips of reflective tape, a WiFi deauther, cheap and accessible stuff like this make the practical usefulness of most home camera systems limited at best to the owner understanding what and how it happened.
That’s why police looks to piece together from a larger surveillance network. Maybe you can’t see the face on the home camera but in another camera down the road, or a license plate on the getaway car down the street, or an accomplice without disguise. They want everyone to have cameras and then they can abuse the system.
Friends showed me high quality close up footage of someone stealing their bike. Absolutely useless, all you saw was an average guy that you wouldn’t recognize if you walked past on the street.