Effectiveness of footage leading to actual arrests, or any other camera sstories?

I've only used my cameras so far for complaining to trash company for not picking up my trash
 
I do live in a safe and quiet neighborhood, but you just don't know what's going on unless you're watching. The following video was shot 1 week after I installed my very first cam. The perp was caught, prosecuted and in now serving time.

My son left his door unlocked that night. He never does that, but what-do-ya know the one night he does leave it unlocked someone's trying doors in the neighborhood. Obviously the neighbor left theirs unlocked as well.

The perps accomplice was not apprehended since his buddy would not give him up. The fingerprints, that how we got him.
 
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My son left his door unlocked that night. He never does that, but what-do-ya know the one night he does leave it unlocked someone's trying doors in the neighborhood. Obviously the neighbor left theirs unlocked as well.
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I have to admit I never lock the doors on my car. It's parked in my driveway. It's not a street on which anybody who doesn't live in the 'hood traverses, though, and it's only accessible by car. If I lived in the city I'd be more careful.
 
I live in chicago I leave the doors unlocked for a reason

1. So they don't take a screw driver to my door lock
2. so they don't have to use a fire fighters window punch
3. they will still get in if the doors are unlocked or locked why cause more damage, money and time to get it fixed and then more time to clean up the mess
 
If you leave nothing of value in a cat I believe you are better off not locking it. If I got something of value in it I can't carry around I'll lock it up though
 
Woo hoo! Just caught a couple of suspicious dummies and caugt there lic plate too! They saw the cam and it sure did change things, whenvthey saw it! Im loving this!
 
Woo hoo! Just caught a couple of suspicious dummies and caught there lic plate too! They saw the cam and it sure did change things, when they saw it! Im loving this!
 
So far this week we got people stealing a car, good plates on both vehicles involved and great face shots of the main perp given to the police. Clear as day, no way to deny these images lol.

Also got another break in on video, video of the vehicle with the items in it and the perp. We are also able to find the perps name with some facebook ninja work. (another source of info besides the camera used to get this started but they used a fake name , but the video shows that is exactly who it is as they match their facebook picture. Never use a facebook friends real name for criminal activity...) All info given to police.

That is just the last few days. What fun!

This is business related video, not just around my house lol. I have coming up on 1100 cameras.
 
Razer said:
I have coming up on 1100 cameras.
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Holy... o0
I can't imagine having to parse that many feeds.
With that many cameras you should be able to catch shots of the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy. :laugh:
 
Ha, yes I agree! I feel like I see way too much the way it is now lol, this hobby is all fun and games until it becomes work! This is not all I have to mess with too, so I am kept quite busy. You know how much work it takes to get cameras aimed, shutter and light settings tweaked just right for a good image... the you have to watch night footage and tweak again maybe. Now take that times 1100 and think of how much fun it is. Oh, I'd like to upgrade to new firmware..... sigh.

I added 16 more hiks yesterday, and Friday before that we added 22 at another location. Only 3 so far today at least. I've been doing a lot of clicking in firmware lately. :D
 
That does work @milkisbad, I used it yesterday as after I posted the above I got a call for 6 more cameras to setup.... That works really well for upgrading the firmware though and I never knew about it until you mentioned it a few weeks back. That is fine and dandy and I'm very glad to have it. Now I still have almost 90 separate servers to run it on, but still better than one by one upgrading by a long shot. But then I still had to go in to each camera and disable IR, set iframe, set FPS, set shutter, lower the gain slightly, up the noise reduction, turn WDR on and set it and disable the camera label. I'd love to be able to adjust settings like that across the board too.

Then you get to add to NVR which is a whole different process with just about as much work lol!
 
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Can you set up a generic config file with most of your settings to import?
I know the conditions for each installation are going to vary but it might save you a couple of clicks.
 
You guys are lucky enough to live in a nice safe neighborhood. As for me, I have the unfortunate pleasure of living next to drug dealers. I get death threats just about everyday. Before our surveillance cameras were in place & ready for recording, I had to resort to using my cell phone. You can see an example below. Now that we have surveillance cameras, there's almost no need for me to use my cell phone, but I do have my phone ready for speed dial to 911, in case of an emergency.

 
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You guys are lucky enough to live in a nice safe neighborhood. As for me, I have the unfortunate pleasure of living next to drug dealers. I get death threats just about everyday. Before our surveillance cameras were in place & ready for recording, I had to resort to using my cell phone. You can see an example below. Now that we have surveillance cameras, there's almost no need for me to use my cell phone, but I do have my phone ready for speed dial to 911, in case of an emergency.

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Yep 911 shots fired he threatened to set me on fire and burry me
 
pal251 said:
I think he was trying to tell you you're holding the camera wrong.....
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At this point, we may need to just resort to turning our televisions and monitors sideways and reprogramming everything. My wife gets this lecture from me frequently.
 
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For neighbors like that i have your solution

One of these
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And one of these
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I can loan one out to you for a small fee and lots of fun video. From experience Im willing to be your neighbors are terrified of these kinds of dogs :O)

BTW my jet black shep really HATES disorderly peeps like that
 
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