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I host my own on-site and have had my security footage requested by police 4 different times. It's never a subpoena or demanding. Just some detectives will stop by and say they want to know which direction a vehicle went. They come inside, give me a USB stick and we copy it over.

I'm sure I could tell them to kick rocks, and they would have to write up a subpoena but there's no reason to do that.

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>I'm sure I could tell them to kick rocks, and they would have to write up a subpoena but there's no reason to do that

Would they have the right to subpoena you though? Over mere suspicion that they think a vehicle at some point drove a certain direction?

Sure if it was a case involving me personally I'd probably be cooperative, but I don't fancy the idea of just letting LEOs just waltz into my property to "just to take a look"

Legally, I'm not sure. I could say they aren't working, or they're fake etc.

My neighbor has fake cameras and he gets asked too but they just leave it at that and never press it.

Yeah I have zero issue doing this, it costs me nothing, and if it helps keep others accountable for their actions even better.

I’m not saying don’t help the police but I think it’s worth acknowledging that point of view when applied en made is how we end up with policies attempting to back door encryption etc.

I think making sure some decision basis should be applied (there was a break in, commotion, and a car speed chase which ended here is much different to ‘we just wanna see if this car drove past’)

That I do have a problem with. I want police physically asking me for my digital media, and I will gladly oblige most of the time.

You plug unknown USBs into your devices on your network?

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