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> My house was broken into last year. I wish I had Ring then. We never found any leads and police were unable to do anything.

> Since then I have gotten Ring and definitely feel more secure. We even found footage of a man stealing our mail and were able to confirm with Ring app footage from a neighbor that the man stealing the mail was the same stealing their mail.

In that case was, the culprit ever apprehended?

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As a victim of package theft, I’m going to say, no.

Even with a picture of a car, and a decent photo of a face, there’s not much that can be done. You need a license plate. There’s no way to identify these people.

Nope! Which perhaps you could argue makes it not worthwhile if it couldn't help accomplish that.

However, some in our household were worried being targeted because of our position or industry. However, the security camera showed it was a homeless person stealing the mail of everyone on the street which (although annoying) was nice info.

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