The City of Oakland has a major problem with spontaneous illegal activities that create danger for community members, business owners, and schools where lives are in danger, property and businesses are damaged, and communities become overwhelmed with garbage from illegal dumping causing property values to drop and businesses to de-invest in communities. Video surveillance systems were put into neighborhoods all over Oakland over the years by Public Sector, constituents, and business owners but that video is rarely shared with empowered individuals or groups who may be able to do something with it. If someone does capture video, they need to watch the entire video hoping to catch moments where perpetrators are visible and license plates are readable. Even if they locate this data, the crime incident is usually over, and the information captured does not help locate the perpetrators.
Augmented Neighborhood Watch allows constituents to capture, securely stream and store, and kick off actions to help resolve their real-time challenges. do not stream live video, the public has made it clear they will not accept additional surveillance from the public sector, and these crimes occur so spontaneously over a 50-mile radius police cannot predict where the next event with occur.
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