Lets set up a sting and I will have my AK-47 ready for the next one, a neighborresponded.
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You mean like Snoop Dog?
I think it was supposed to say dawgs, a second said.
Neighbors have always peered out their windows at each other and discussed passersby.
And not necessarily for the best.
Thats the risk you take, but I think otherwise youre ignoring a really good resource.
Mobile residents can get a discount on Ring surveillance cameras in exchange for registering their cameras with police.
But the crowd-sourced safety platforms can also be rife with racism and threats of vigilantism.
Trespassing, is all the poster wrote.
Ring declined to answer questions on the record.
Nextdoor removed the posts mentioned in this story after The Markup inquired about them.
But the company recentlychanged its policiesso that police must now request footage in public posts.
These companies are actively going after police partnerships, Drew-Davi said.
Reports around suspicious neighbors or crime is oftentimes just a proxy for a Black or brown citizen.
But even as concerns grow, so does the availability of new public safety technologies.
Recently, neighborhood-owned automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) have become more common.
They can also upload license plates to police databases, creating a powerful tool for tracking drivers movements.
Flock markets its productsspecifically to homeowners associations, organizationsrooted in segregation, that are stilldisproportionately White.
Flock told The Markup that its system is not intended to block anyone from entering a neighborhood.
And then theres the Citizen app, present in about 60 U.S. cities.
Its actions since then have not entirely assuaged fears that it is designed to encourage crowd-served justice.
Citizen has strict validation protocols to limit the spread of misinformation and ensure safety.
She added that the company has no plans to offer additional rewards to share at this time.
In May, Citizen proposed starting aprivate police force.
(It has since abandoned the plan.)
But now youve got the whole internet.
This article by Todd Feathers wasoriginally published on The Markupand was republished under theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeslicense.
