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According to the article:
There are at least two different kinds of heat maps police received through Ring.
Police have access to a heat map showing where Ring doorbells are concentrated. The redder it is on the map, the more Ring cameras there are. CNET obtained a screenshot of the heat map in Bloomfield, New Jersey, during an interview in May with the city’s police.
The map showed that the entire town was covered in Ring cameras, which would allow police to request footage from virtually anywhere in the neighborhood.
For other police departments, the heat map is a tool that could help show where to distribute free video doorbells that Ring provides to law enforcement.
Police in Hampton, Virginia, partnered with Ring in March and received 15 free cameras, plus one free camera for every 20 people who signed up. The department said it doesn’t have exact numbers on how many people in the town have Ring cameras but said the heat map has helped provide a sense of how widespread they are.
“As you use that heat map, you can get a general area,” Sgt. R.C. Williams, Hampton police’s public information officer, told CNET in May. “It covers a good portion of the community, but there are certain areas that are not covered.”
At the time, the department said it was working with its crime analysis team to figure out where to distribute Ring cameras.
The other kind of heat map was detailed in public documents sent to Motherboard. According to the report, Amazon created heat maps showing where packages were lost and shared it with police. The tech giant then helped police organize sting operations using Ring doorbells in attempts to catch package thieves. Ring said it didn’t create that map and only provides the heat map of cameras available to police.
At the time, there was a question of whether it was violating the Posse Comitatus Act. Later, there was a search warrant to the power company for electricity consumption. You can, perhaps, understand my confusion. Cops, here, have a casual attitude toward this Constitution thing. Witness our local mayor and Antifa.