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The Shaky Evidence That Flock Cameras Reduce Crime Rates (https://reason.com)

21 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 2 comments | View on ycombinator

AngryData about 21 hours ago |

Surveillance cameras never did shit for stopping crime, don't know why anybody thought Flock would be different.

FireBeyond about 20 hours ago |

The other issue is that for Flock's marketing purpose, if a Flock query was made in relation to a crime, and that crime was later resolved, Flock considers themselves to have "helped solve the crime", regardless of the relevance or lack thereof of the query itself.