Amazon sent a man through my neighborhood to figure out why so many packages are being stolen.

Today, a man named Mario, from Amazon, came through our neighborhood. He stopped by my apartment building and rang a bunch of the doorbells and talked to some of us about stolen packages.

The consensus among the tenants was just that we lived in a bad neighborhood.

It’s in Waukegan, IL, and just blocks from where the riots and looting pretty much tore through the town last year.

The cops pretty much just hide out in the police station doing nothing and playing with themselves, or occasionally venture out to write up some paperwork, or issue traffic tickets, so when the looting happened, the cops pretty much arrested 6 people out of hundreds and called it a day.

Mail theft, early in the morning, and package theft, are of course, easy crimes to get away with. Especially when the cops don’t care.

I told Mario, from Amazon, that the cops are useless and just write up reports, and that I think all they could really do about the thefts is to try to get the attention of the homeowner or tenant by ringing the buzzer, but we lived in a time and, especially, a place, where if people can take what’s yours, they’ll try to.

When what they take from you using the government isn’t enough to satisfy, they’ll steal your mail, your Amazon packages, and even go through your trash looking for bank statements and electric bills (so they can sign you up with a fake energy company and get a prepaid card).

Mario, from Amazon, then asked who owned the building and how he could contact the landlord, so I told him. I doubt anything positive comes from this. Even if they get him to install some Ring doorbells, that just creates another problem for us. They have a lousy record on security and they enable facial recognition spying, which is actually illegal in Illinois, but nobody will do anything about it because the cops love having access to your cameras….oh, and they do btw.

Doesn’t help them solve crime, but they can pull up a live feed anytime they want, or ask Amazon for the footage. It’s on their server.

This guy in Michigan is going to court and his own Ring doorbell is the state’s evidence.

Generally, people should be careful of the surveillance they agree to. Maybe this guy installed the Ring because he was afraid of his house being burglarized, but then he ended up catching footage of himself shooting at someone he probably thought was up to no good.

Since Ring stores the video on the Amazon server, there’s no way to use something like shred on the video before the cops arrive.

There may be a delete button on “Cloud” computing, or there may not be, but you don’t know if they actually did or not. All you know is that you no longer have access to it.