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  • Speaking from another big west coast city where people are debating these things - lot of the pro-flock folks are people in the more well-to-do areas that want to get tough on crime.

    They don’t like that suburban burglaries and car break ins are a lower priority for police. Cops in big cities are usually prioritizing the nastier crimes, not low value smash and grabs that are damn near impossible to solve.

    People in the nicer areas throw money into cameras and private security, then the camera and security companies give the residents a bunch of bad data that shows their product is working through correlation, not causation. Then the residents become proponents for solutions that often have pretty poor efficacy when you look at non-industry data.

    These security companies have a playbook. I imagine there are hundreds of other cities in the exact same spot.