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BuffScan Repeaters

01/16/2025

Camera Call Out

I repeat, this isn't cool.

If you're into police scanners you're probably familiar with the concept of repeaters because, well, radio stuff. But that's not the kind of repeater I'm referring to.

In today's Camera Call Out I'm re-capitulating this footage from the Ring Neighbors app to highlight the unusual phenomenon of those porch pirates who keep showing up over and over again on camera.

Like, what's the deal?

The person featured lifting a package off a porch and walking away above has, according to the original poster, been there once before to do the same thing. But I wouldn't be making a morning topic out of this based on that alone, I've seen a number of people over large swaths of time show up over and over again. Here's one BuffScan YT video that seems to demonsrate just that.

What's interesting to me among many things in contemplating all of this is how the entire home security/doorbell camera market (the Rings of commerce) must be trying to digest that their conceptual tagline, that their cameras do something to prevent or curb porch piracy, is basically fiction.

The bad actors seem to be very attuned to the reality that the resources aren't there to intercept and stop them, at least from the law enforcement sector. Thieves make tepid if any attempt to disguise themselves, and, as is the slant here, they'll even become "porch pirate cam celebrities".

There is sort of an air that police don't really want to be involved (in a sense) with directly combating porch pirates. When they give advice, it's nearly always a piece more about how to have packages safely delivered than it is on the steps to take in order to help cops race after the bad guy.

Of course the problem is complicated, and maybe police shouldn't be spending any time on a direct assault -- I am not sure that that actually is a good idea.

And truth be told, part of me has always wondered what kind of naive optimism must exist that an entire industry somehow built up around leaving expensive consumer goods alone on porches in the first place. Go figure.

BuffScan Pokey Report

The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.

Booking Date 1/15/2025

FRIERSON, LANIEYA
GRIECO, JUSTIN
HANDLEY, ALPHONSO
HOCKENBURY, WILBERT J
JUDD, MITCHELL R
KELLY, JUSTIN
LATORRE, MARIE
PERRIN, BRIAN
PITTMAN, GLEN
REYES-CALIZ, KENNETH
ROBINSON JR, JARREAU
WATKINS, DEMARIO

In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard.

For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.

By BuffScan for BuffScan.