Porch pirates, door cams, and the new neighborhood watch

from Civic · host Laura Wenus, Mel Baker

You can read the story, "The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This," in The Atlantic.

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After video of a repeat package thief circulated among neighbors on social media, journalist Lauren Smiley decided to go after the full story of what happened next. She found a complicated intersection of class, race, surveillance, and law enforcement.

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