All Over The Country, Police are Building a Surveillance Network with Ring doorbells, Amazon is Helping

The Neighbors app allows people to post videos and crime alerts. Police can request Ring footage through this app.
 
More than 50 local police departments have partnered with Ring over the last two years and promoted the products to citizens, essentially building neighborhoods with security cameras on every doorstep, according to a report by CNET.

According to the report, Amazon’s Ring doorbells are helping cops build surveillance networks in neighborhoods across the country. Bloomfield, New Jersey, is one such place.

“Our township is now entirely covered by cameras, Every area of town we have, there are some Ring cameras.” said Capt. Vincent Kerney, detective bureau commander of the Bloomfield Police Department in New Jersey.
It is not a really a drive by view for police, when cops partner with Ring, they get access to a law enforcement dashboard where they can geofence an area and request footage filmed at specific times. They can only get the video if the resident chooses to send it, otherwise they would need to subpoena Ring.
When CNET checked with Ring, it released the following statement;
 "Ring customers are in control of their videos, when they decide to share them and whether or not they want to purchase a recording plan. Ring has donated devices to Neighbor's Law Enforcement partners for them to provide to members of their communities, Ring does not support programs that require recipients to subscribe to a recording plan or that footage from Ring devices be shared as a condition for receiving a donated device. We are actively working with partners to ensure this is reflected in their programs."

This is not the first time Amazon dealt with law enforcement, earlier it had the "Face Recognition Program" created some uproar, so is the Ring sharing of information. While Ring faced backlash last December when it was considering facial recognition for the doorbell cameras, police are capable of using the footage provided by residents with their own algorithms.;
"What we have here is a perfect marriage between law enforcement and one of the world's biggest companies creating conditions for a society that few people would want to be a part of," said Mohammad Tajsar, staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California.
Read more at CNET.