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Hernando County sheriff hopes working with Amazon-owned Ring’s ‘new neighborhood watch’ app will help solve crimes

Posted on February 8, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Jack Evans reports:

Strange and mundane happenings around Brooksville and Spring Hill make their way to Neighbors, a security-meets-social-media app that markets itself as “the new neighborhood watch.”

Over the past few weeks, local posts on the app have ranged from residents shaken by strangers loitering on their porches to clips of startled housecats darting across lawns. Deliverymen, county utilities workers and Jehovah’s Witnesses have been quickly pointed out as such in comments sections. Some users have exposed the coyotes stalking their backyards; one warned of a neighbor’s loose dog.

“Missing a chicken?” one post asked, with a picture of the fowl in question.

Read more on Tampa Bay Times.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

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