These thieves may not be among the most prominent criminals.
Baltimore police have reported a brazen series of home thefts, in which people walk up to the doorbell and steal their cameras.
Since Sept. 20, 27 theft reports have been received by the Baltimore Police Department from Patterson Park residents.
The thieves don’t seem to care that their faces are recorded by the cameras.
“Guy just went and pulled it out,”WMAR-TV was informed by Tom Prats, a resident.
Prats and his neighbours shared videos of their neighbors’ doorbell cameras being taken out.
“I saw a group of kids and then I saw like a hand, and then I didn’t see anything. So I tried to open it back up again, and then it kept saying video not found,”Stacie Forrest stated that the Ring camera she used was taken from her front yard this month.
She said that her neighbor’s house was also hit.
“It looked like it was a game. I walk every day and was walking back from Patterson Park and noticed that … I counted four people putting up new doorbells,”She spoke.
Ring offers a program for replacement to the owners of the device if they submit a copy from the police report within fourteen days of a loss.
Forrest said that she was most upset by the fact people broke into her house and stole the security device she had paid good money for.
“There’s just something about you thinking you can take something that I worked for. That’s the thing with me. You thinking you can take it, OK … you can take this ass whooping too because that’s what I was ready to do and I’m just tired of it. Just tired of it,”She spoke.