I am afraid of people breaking into my home or, even worse, stealing an Amazon package. I live in a pretty homogeneous higher-income neighborhood so that is not very likely. For the first few years, I lived in this city, I didn’t lock the door: my life was like Canadians’ lives are portrayed in Bowling for Columbine, minus the guns.

However, my naive vision of the predominantly white neighborhood I live in has been shattered by the unrequested reports of suspicious activity on the Ring app. Ring is the standard for home security systems and they have an app where people in your area can report suspicious activity. Most times it is just homeless people getting too close to your home porch, but there are the occasional Amazon package thieves (my biggest fear).

I check the neighborhood alerts and do a little dance when I see that the incident was not in my neighborhood but a couple of miles away, closer to downtown where the riffraff live (this is a small town, so everything is 2-3 miles away),  giving me a false sense of safety. But that is not the point.

I saw a new alert today. It is a notorious event because we only get like 2 every month:

Because it is mainly old, white people who live here and use this service, things can get out of hand and people report things that are really not worth reporting. The above is an example of one of those cases, in my opinion.

Because I think that small things make a big difference, I wanted to thank this person for posting this, but I did it in my own little way f saying thanks.

Here is my response.

I hope they reexamine their lives and are able to sleep at night knowing that the world is not as bad as they think it is.