Something tells me not to do this.
Eyes everywhere.
I’m sure only if LE can access your camera 24/7
Sounds similar to the power company offering free wifi controlled thermostats, so that they can control your temperature settings.
So they hint that the cameras are a good thing, then they incentify the cameras and hope that people will do it in the name of a ‘good thing”. Next they will try to make it alaw that every home have an outdoor security camera...in the name of it being a ‘good thing”. Next they will try to suggest that all houses have indoor cameras...and so on...
I cannot see this as ultimately leading to being a ‘good thing”!
Cut out the middle man and have LE set up their own cameras fed into the police station’s basement.
The next incentives will be indoor security camera feeds including bedrooms.
Make it $5k if they bag a porch pirate and they’ll get somewhere.
I’ve got something better: a 95 pound Rotten Shepherd (she’s more Rottweiler than German Shepherd) that comes to life in a big way whenever strangers come within 50 feet of our house.
I don’t know of a $200 camera capable of the image quality necessary to accomplish this stated goal. The fisheye on most of them makes the image crap past 20-30ft even on 4K models.
If the camera you are looking at cannot CLEARLY capture a license plate on a vehicle in the road, you haven’t found your solution, yet.
VERY likely, most properties need at least two cameras — one for the porch and immediate front yard, and a second for the street/driveway.
But then you’ve got placement issues, wiring demands, and mitigating the threat of theft negatively impacting your installation plan.
Against those odds, $200 doesn’t go very far.
Two hundred dollars ain’t squat. I am sure there are demands if you take that scrawny 200.
Ring cameras are accessed by the police all over your area. They can follow everyone’s movements.
Meanwhile the criminals stay out of jail due to the democrats not locking them up.