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Detective briefs commission on Ring 'Neighbors' app; police staff outline crime trends, jail contract issues and form tow-RFP ad hoc committee
Summary
Detective Richard Lee described the Ring Neighbors app and how the department uses digital neighborhood alerts; police staff reported small crime increases, recruiting activity and work to replace a jail contract while the commission authorized a two-member ad hoc committee to review tow-company RFPs.
Detective Richard Lee, the department’s crime prevention officer and analyst, gave the Public Safety Commission a demonstration of the Ring Neighbors app and described how the department uses neighborhood notification tools.
Lee said Ring’s Neighbors app allows users to post videos and alerts without owning a Ring product and that Ring moderates Neighbors posts for relevance to safety and missing-persons reports. He explained posts are anonymized to other users (users appear as “Neighbor 1, 2…”), locations are shown as general circles rather than precise addresses, and Ring removed a previous law-enforcement “request for assistance” feature earlier in the year because of privacy concerns. Lee emphasized that criminal incidents should be reported…
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