| ▲ | asdff 3 hours ago |
| I have a local one (reolink). Prompted by neighbors getting robbed unfortunately. Will this prevent crime? Maybe some but probably not all. But it would let me know if I have to file a stolen package claim or should wait on the package for a few more days. Plus it has been doubling as a trail camera for the local fauna I had no idea came by so frequently. It faces private property only as it is set up. |
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| ▲ | tehlike 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The local law enforcement will likely not have the time to chase individual small cases either... |
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| ▲ | repeekad 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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... https://youtu.be/37fp2n6p19Q | | |
| ▲ | lifestyleguru an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Igor_Stachowiak | | |
| ▲ | theodric an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | close04 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | FranklinJabar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You can always put the cameras inside the home and disable WAN access. Best of all worlds. |
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| ▲ | colordrops 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Not sure why you are downvoted. Reolinks work without internet and can stream locally using rtsp. I have a doorbell cam from them and it works fine. If you block it from the internet you only get video and basic doorbell functionality though, which is fine. |
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| ▲ | classic959 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You can also stream Reolink video to a Frigate box (free software) and access that from wherever. No cloud involved if you run your own VPN. Or even better, _just a little_ cloud involved if you expose through Cloudflare tunnel for just you and whoever else needs to access it. |
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