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Police Officers Are Turning Into Reddit Mods Thanks to Amazon's Neighborhood Watch
- The LAPD detective Jeffry Poole started receiving numerous emails about alleged crimes from the Neighbors platform, a social media tool for Ring doorbell camera owners.
- Neighbors, owned by Amazon's Ring, aims to unite community members, the Ring News team, and law enforcement to prevent crimes like burglaries and package thefts.
- The LAPD, along with many other police departments in the U.S., has a partnership with Ring that results in officers receiving email alerts from the Neighbors platform.
- The partnership raises concerns about invasion of consumer privacy, misleading police officers' focus, and inundating officers with non-criminal alerts.
- Experts worry that the focus on quality-of-life issues and property theft may divert attention from more serious, life-threatening crimes.
- Critics argue that treating officers as moderators for non-criminal behavior wastes their time and distracts from meaningful police work.
- Ring's aggressive recruitment of police, including providing officers with free cameras, raising concerns about excessive data collection and privacy violations.
- The LAPD's historical embrace of unproven technologies like predictive policing, alongside its partnership with Ring, raises concerns about privacy and civil liberties.
- Despite Ring's efforts to collaborate with police, there is uncertainty about the effectiveness and tangible outcomes of these partnerships in reducing crime.
- The platform has been criticized for turning minor complaints into policing matters and potentially hindering police responsiveness to more critical issues.
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