[mytailorisrich]

From the article, this simply creates a portal that allows the police to request Ring owners in one area to share footage with them, and it is up to the owners to then agree, at which point I expect the Ring device will automatically send the requested footage to the police.

If that's indeed what they do I really don't see any issues, on the contrary that sounds like the way forward.

Currently police has to go door to door to ask neighbours if they have any CCTV and then get the SD cards or what not in order to recover footage.