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My neighbor's camera caught someone doing a hit and run on my car, eternally grateful for that!
Which I agree with... IE I like the system of "your camera catches a hit and run", you can go knock on their door, ask them to share the footage with you... and you give it to your lawyer, cops or insurance adjusters as you see fit.
What people like me don't like is the idea that the cops decide to search your permission, use your footage to prosecute a crime you wouldn't want to. Imagine the same scenerio... except instead of a hit and run... lets say it was say someone delivering pot... or a hispanic person just going home for the day, and ICE was looking for someone to bother, etc...
Point is we're all happy to be witnesses to crimes that hurt people. but we also know you give cops too much power.. and you'll find horrible things happening
Well, after we put in our cameras, the cops did come knocking to investigate a shooting across the street.
As I explained to the cops: "The cameras trigger on motion, not sound, and they're only pointed at our property, not across the street. No records."
Cops left after that.
Except they can do the same thing without opted into a massive surveillance system that tracks your comings and goings and hands it over to the government to be used against you.