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Neighbors by Ring

A social crime feed that turns doorbell clips into a real-time neighborhood watch.

Neighbors is Ring's standalone social app that aggregates user-posted video clips, crime and safety alerts, and comments within a geographic radius of each user's home address. Law-enforcement and fire agencies join the platform to post alerts and previously to broadcast footage requests, making it the community-surveillance layer of Amazon's home-security ecosystem.

What it does

  • Geofenced crime and safety alert feed
  • User-shared camera clips and comments
  • Location-based neighborhood mapping
  • Agency posting and public-safety alerts
  • Feeds the Community Requests evidence pipeline

Where it's deployed

  • 2,600+ U.S. police departments and ~600 fire departments (partnerships)
  • City of Elgin, Illinois

Agencies using it

Local LE

Sources

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