Ring的安全设备被宣传为一种让你的家安心的方式，公司与执法部门合作提供额外安全的工作也有很好的记录。但是最近关于亚马逊公司的两个故事表明，它的安全摄像头会扭曲你对你家附近实际发生了多少犯罪的看法，以及它们可能根本无法帮助警方破案。

在一篇为《纽约》杂志撰稿的文章中，马克斯·里德讲述了他在公寓门上安装环形安全摄像头的经历。安装它显然让他对家里发生的事情非常清楚，部分原因是这个应用程序从他的相机和Ring的邻居应用程序发送的“安全警报”中发出了很多关于运动的通知。社区中的任何人都可以下载邻居，以便接收和讨论当地警察和团伙所有者上传的与犯罪和安全相关的警报和视频剪辑。

里德说，他发现邻居的应用程序“非常容易上瘾，是一个充满窥视、猜疑、不安和神秘感的大杂烩。”

...as entertaining as Neighbors is, it’s haunted by a background sense that maybe you don’t really need to know quite so much about your block, or your neighborhood. Moments you’d never have been aware of without the Ring — a stranger stepping on your stoop, or knocking on your door — mount as evidence of possible danger and urban decay. Even unquestionably innocuous activity, like me unlocking my own door, is lent the frisson of danger thanks to the security-camera-style footage.

他还对Ring的营销策略“在很大程度上依赖于说服房主他们的财产不断受到犯罪的威胁，Ring摄像头可以帮助防止犯罪”以及如何鼓励这种高度的危险感提出了异议。

但是，戒指录像不仅仅对个人感兴趣——该公司还与近900家执法机构建立了合作关系，前提是执法机构可以利用戒指数据帮助破案。然而，根据NBC新闻的一项调查，许多机构实际上不能将任何犯罪归因于借助环形摄像机的帮助而得以解决。

NBC新闻采访了8个州的40个执法机构，这些机构与Ring合作了至少3个月。以下是文章中关于这些伙伴关系实际效果的一段引述：

Thirteen of the 40 jurisdicti*** reached, including Winter Park, said they had made zero arrests as a result of Ring footage. Thirteen were able to confirm arrests made after reviewing Ring footage, while two offered estimates. The rest, including large cities like Phoenix, Miami, and Kansas City, Missouri, said that they don’t know how many arrests had been made as a result of their relati***hip with Ring — and therefore could not evaluate its effectiveness — even though they had been working with the company for well over a year.

在确实发生的可归因于犯罪团伙的逮捕中，许多是针对低级非暴力财产犯罪的：

Of the arrests that police connected to Ring, most were for low-level non-violent property crimes, according to interviews and police records reviewed by NBC. These arrests detailed the theft of a $13 book, the theft of a Nintendo Switch video game c***ole (and several items, including two coffee mugs, purchased from the Home Shopping Network valued at $175. In Parker County, Texas, two people were arrested for allegedly stealing a dachshund named Rufus Junior, valued at $200.

这两篇文章合在一起表明，虽然戒指能有效地提高你对家里发生的事情的意识，但公司的设备和服务可能会让你更容易对发生的事情感到恐惧，也可能对执法部门没有显著的帮助。

Ring拒绝置评。

更正：我们原来说，戒指的邻居应用程序是只为戒指所有者。任何人都可以下载并发布到邻居，但戒指所有者也可以分享他们设备上的剪辑，我们已经澄清了这一点。我们对这个错误感到遗憾。