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Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows

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FuturismFlock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data ShowsNew FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021.

Replying to @⁨T156@lemmy.world⁩

Anything that would do meaningful damage to a camera sensor will easily to that to human eyeballs if it refracts or gets reflected.

I don’t think that’s true? The lidars on Waymo have been known to damage camera sensors but are safe to the eyes. By damage, like a pixel or two go out, but that’s from a random hit. If you did it right you could do more damage.

Replying to @⁨NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world⁩

Interesting. I would have expected cameras to be more resilient between both their internal filters and the sensor material being tougher than human eyeballs, so anything that could overwhelm that and burn out a camera sensor would be able to ruin someone’s vision almost instantly.

Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨3⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨03:46⁩⁩en