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    graffiti artist

    The thing is: the police themselves have told me that they WANT to hear about graffiti in progress and will respond to it. Once, one officer even asked me why I didn't call 911 when I saw it happening! But I think 911 is trained to filter you out ASAP if you call with something like that. "Door...
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    graffiti artist

    The local police attitude and responsiveness seems very good to me. In the big city where I live, I think if I called 911 about someone tagging a dumpster in an alley, or suspicious people congregating somewhere, instead of sending cops out they'd tell me to fill out an online report and mail...
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    Checking car doors at 4AM

    I predict that checking car doors and even house doors will soon no longer be investigated by police as suspicious behavior, much less considered any sort of crime. The disinterest of cops in this is already becoming widespread and increasingly you are more likely get an argument from 911...
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    Ill play the pissing on the garage game

    Yeah one trait of people like that is that they generally are too addled and irresponsible to keep up with the rent and get bounced out fairly quickly. The exception would be when you've got some 30-something (or 40 or 50) coke/meth/booze addict permanently residing with mommy and daddy ... who...
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    Prowler

    The backpack is the giveaway to petty thievery. Always. Male. 2:30 a.m. on private property. Backpack. Case closed.
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    Scanning for interesting items

    One of them's wearing a backpack, too! I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.
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    Burglar in San Antonio cuts himself breaking into a home. (Not mine)

    That kid's seen too many movies about breaking glass with bare hands or arms without getting a scratch. That's Hollywood glass. The real thing almost always inflicts cuts and I personally know of one person who died after walking through a sliding glass door due to rapid blood loss. Note...
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    Prowlers in the freezing cold..

    The telltale backpacks. I always keep my eye on guys strolling around a residential neighborhood with backpacks.
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    Suspicious dude jogs through yards

    I live at the end of a cul de sac, too. Something about a dead-end street is a magnet for every oddball passing by or wandering weirdo on foot. I see a lot of strange behavior on my cameras that you would never see on a regular thru street. Sometimes, my neighbor and I take turns parking our...
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    Guy breaking into my car last night...

    More confirmation of a long-held bias of mine: Whenever I see an unfamiliar guy strolling around the neighborhood at odd hours (or any hour, for that matter) wearing a flipping BACKPACK, it is always a red flag to me. I can't help it. If I see them on my cameras, I always keep watching. If you...
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    Package thief

    I went to all kinds of trouble when I got my first set of IP cams to mount them way up high, assuming that the comprehensive "aerial" view from overhead looking down onto my porch—and another across my patio— was the best way to see as much as possible. Eventually I realized that I couldn't even...
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    Mail theft

    Of course, some certifiably mentally ill people are also illegal drug users (impulse to self medicate) and vice versa so the line becomes rather blurred. The fact that she's (a) making no effort to conceal her activity and (b) giving nonsensical explanations about "delivering circulars" after...
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    Package Thief Loses More Than He Gained (not mine)

    Try calling 911 in a large city and tell them somebody stole a package off your porch! They'll tell you to come into the nearest cop station the next day during regular hours and fill out a report by yourself. I think many depts would rather not have to delegate manpower to investigating...
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    Privacy boxes on video - color to number chart needed

    808080 is basic gray. More here: http://www.color-hex.com/
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    Mini movie. Get your popcorn!

    Superb. This video is the gold standard as an example of the value of IP cams. Be a long time before anybody tops it. Thanks ...
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    car door checkers...

    I think there's kind of an informal effort among the criminal element to make door-checking just something you are supposed to now accept as part of daily life. Much like tagging has become in some neighborhoods. I had a friend who saw a pair of young guys going down his alley in broad daylight...
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    SD Cards Longevity question

    When it comes to micro SDs, I buy cheapo no-name brands on sale. After almost two years I haven't had one tank on me yet. I run 64gb in three Axis cams — IP cameras, not dash cams— but two of them record a continuous 24/7 low-res stream + high res motion clips and are mounted in windows exposed...
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    Sricam AP004 WIFI Problems.

    Indeed, if you google "hughesnet ip camera" you see a lot of people having troubles getting cams to operate on that service. Don't know if they're a match for your problem or not, but most seem to be related to port forwarding and ip issues. You might sort through those hits and see what others...
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    Graffiti "Artist" Caught on Camera!

    The proven mechanism of graffiti is that one tag, no matter how innocuous, inevitably attracts many others that may be totally unrelated to that first one. I've lived through this, I know the pattern. The sight of one prominent tag being allowed to remain is taken as a sign to others that (a)...
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    I wonder if they paid for this

    I have a mental picture of the VHS VCR that camera's probably connected to.
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    Effectiveness of footage leading to actual arrests, or any other camera sstories?

    Several years ago, my first-gen Panasonic IP cams proved the power of deterrence, as far as I'm concerned. I had a neighbor who had produced a real bad seed for a son: an early 20-something slacker who was in and out of jail and basically had every visual appearance of being a POS criminal. Guy...
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