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No. Firemen have incentive to prevent fires. Home fires don't increase their revenue stream and in fact put them at risk of injury or death.

Police are not mandated to prevent crimes, and have no external incentives to do so (I state external because some officers want to reduce crime due to morals/ethical beliefs). In fact, in can be argued by looking at civil forfeiture laws and federal programs paying officers directly for certain arrests, that preventing crime is actually against their best interests both organizationally and individually.

However, handing out a tool that always indicates suspicious activity and allows them to invade privacy.. well, that fits in exactly with the behavior that laws and rules surrounding them have encouraged.