Posted on 12/12/2018 1:00:47 PM PST by SMGFan
Tired of Grinches stealing a little bit of Christmas, Jersey City and e-commerce giant Amazon are teaming up to put the fear of Cindy Lou Who into package thieves. Amazon has supplied the city with Ring video doorbells, “dummy” boxes and GPS devices to help catch porch pirates in the act -- or at least on video. The program is the first of its kind on the East Coast, Jersey City spokeswoman Ashley Manz said.
It didn’t take long to see how effective the tools, combined with a concerted effort by the police department’s Burglary Unit, could be. “Eight minutes after we put the program into action (Monday), we caught someone,” said Manz, who noted that by noon three people had been caught.
Exact figures on porch thefts are hard to track. A company commissioned by comparison-shopping service insuranceQuotes.com surveyed 1,000 people and extrapolated that 26 million Americans have had a holiday package stolen from their home. That would be nearly one in 12 Americans. Manz said Amazon had estimated their were 400-500 package thefts in Jersey City last year.
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So which is bad, “porch” or “monkey”? Can I still say I’m sitting on my porch swing?
All the PC lingo makes my hair hurt.
“How long before they say porch pirates is a dog whistle for a racial epithet”
Done - and done.
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