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> “Our in-house news team monitors every alert that comes through our system and determines if they are relevant crime & safety incidents to send out to impacted neighborhoods,” Ring says in one a document provided exclusively to law enforcement officials.

Of all things, doesn't this sound like something that would be pretty easy to automate? The data points sound straightforward (crime type, time, location, investigation status, etc).

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Yes, theoretically it should be easy. Though I'm guessing every jurisdiction has a different way of categorizing things, and having human editors have the final OK will prevent situations where, say, a domestic dispute incident is pushed because it was misclassified by the police/emergency services.

Though the list [0] of CAD categories that Amazon Ring says it will publish, versus what they won't, makes absolutely no sense. For example, "Categories we cover" includes "Shootings" and "Stabbing". But "Categories we don't cover" include "Assault".

[0] https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--b8xmxPE...

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