06-05-2014, 09:55 AM
We have found that having HD video surveillance has helped really reduce the petty stuff around our neighborhood...
However, it only was reduced AFTER the local police were given jump drives that also showed up their response times (and the fact that they were on a couple of different video systems, going by a house that had a break-in minutes after the call in to 911, but not stopping at the residence for another 1/2 hour...they claimed they had not been in the neighborhood until the proof was supplied...
(added the officer that I talked to was genuinely surprised at the current quality...he had not expected that we could very much ID his vehicle from a home surveillance system...and these also are able to be remote over web.. something he did not realize until seeing the results!)
It is over a year now & most of the petty stuff is gone (although our neighborhood has a few mostly to totally unoccupied residences, only one is now a sometimes a target, as the owner does not have surveillance of the property...& our camera mount toward his property is no longer there, so no cameras are on it....amazing how "they" know which is being watched & which is not!)
However, it only was reduced AFTER the local police were given jump drives that also showed up their response times (and the fact that they were on a couple of different video systems, going by a house that had a break-in minutes after the call in to 911, but not stopping at the residence for another 1/2 hour...they claimed they had not been in the neighborhood until the proof was supplied...
(added the officer that I talked to was genuinely surprised at the current quality...he had not expected that we could very much ID his vehicle from a home surveillance system...and these also are able to be remote over web.. something he did not realize until seeing the results!)
It is over a year now & most of the petty stuff is gone (although our neighborhood has a few mostly to totally unoccupied residences, only one is now a sometimes a target, as the owner does not have surveillance of the property...& our camera mount toward his property is no longer there, so no cameras are on it....amazing how "they" know which is being watched & which is not!)