"I think 99 percent of your day you’re on camera and filmed anyway. The cameras are everywhere. It’s just another one."
Just before midnight over Labor Day weekend, two men in a Nissan 370z pulled onto Paddock Oaks Drive in Riverview and stopped in front of the first house on the block.
In under 10 minutes, one man got out of the vehicle, removed the tailgate of a Ford pickup truck sitting in the driveway, and left. A neighbor’s home security system caught the moment.
Identifying the men might have taken significant legwork, but an automatic license plate reader positioned at the entrance of the community captured key evidence. Two weeks later, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office made two arrests.
Paddock Oaks is one of 14 Tampa Bay communities that have signed on with Atlanta-based Flock Safety to provide high-speed, high-definition cameras for surveillance. It’s a new twist on a technology that companies have historically sold to law enforcement, repossession companies or toll operators. And it may be coming to a neighborhood near you.
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