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asdaaaaaaaa t1_j4hy07k wrote

From my experience, the issue isn't that there's no evidence (while that is a case a lot of the time), even when there is getting them to actually follow up or investigate is the wall you hit. Where I am, you can have camera footage, receipts, hell even their wallet they dropped, that doesn't mean they'll look into it or follow through. Heavily depends on who you are, and who the criminal(s) is.

Just seems like this will just exacerbate the already massive backlog issues they have, while also costing a ton more to operate the cameras and store the data.

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[deleted] t1_j4iq828 wrote

Had a tire slashed in Brooklyn last year. Got a photo of the guy standing next to my car holding a knife. The cops came and said unless I had a video of him putting the knife in the tire there is nothing they can do. They didn't even bother writing a report.

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EmeraldFalcon89 t1_j4j5s4r wrote

gave them the license plate of the car that totaled mine

'we don't have any way of verifying if that's true' was the nicest response I got before they started to more directly imply that I was trying to frame a random guy or commit fraud of some kind.

they couldn't update or add information to the police report and told me 'the detectives' would call me about the case - surprise, they did not.

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mmnnButter t1_j4j8t7n wrote

slash a cops tire and theyll 'fear for their lives'

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RollEmbarrassed9448 t1_j4hzdcf wrote

the issue is they will use it to misuse it to further their own ends, as in the article when they harassed a blm protester.

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mmnnButter t1_j4j8vn5 wrote

you say misuse they say use. This is why they built it

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cannibal_man t1_j4ipcuz wrote

I doubt they even have the maintenance staff to keep those cameras in operation. Many will probably be broken for weeks or even months before they get around to it.

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