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by medium_burrito 1852 days ago
For the first time in my life I've seen private security in my neighborhood. We're in one of the poorer areas of the city (ie $1-2.5m houses), so perhaps people cannot afford to leave?

I've always thought security on demand was a great idea- the real killer app in my mind is having a map online of which houses the private security company protects, so as to create an incentive for people who aren't paying to get protection as the thieves know what's ripe for the picking.
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C19is20 1852 days ago
>We're in one of the poorer areas of the city (ie $1-2.5m houses

Is that 'poorer' measured in actual USD $, or old Italian lira or pesos or something?

#wishiwaspoorthere.

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medium_burrito 1852 days ago
This is American techbro poor, where rampant asset inflation has been occurring ever since the government has been more or less printing money, and now buying corporate bonds (BOJ of course is the ghost of economy future here, having done this since the late triassic).

Not really a purely American problem- everybody else has this too- which is why young people are so pissed everywhere that they have no future.

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chasd00 1852 days ago
how wold a private security company protect your house? If they were there in the driveway 24x7 then maybe. Once your house is robbed or being robbed if you have to call someone it's already too late.

i was a victim of a home invasion and maybe 10 years later a violent crime. In both cases only after the real danger was over did a call for help happen.

In the home invasion it ended when the gunman was forcing my roommate to the garage, my roommate opened the door, the gunman walked out, he then slammed/locked the door behind him and we hit the deck calling 911

In the second case i was jumped from behind and knocked nearly unconscious before being robbed. It took me a full 15min to get the brain fog cleared to even think what to do next.

i don't see how an app is going to offer any protection at all. Maybe it speeds up reporting crime??

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Cyberdog 1852 days ago
The same way that police ostensibly protect houses; by being there, patrolling randomly, keeping an eye out for things that don't look right.
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