The first video your camera will record, if it can be recovered, is pictures of the vandals destruction of the camera. Count on it.
If the park is private property, I would suggest a team of armed guards. One man, by himself, unarmed, with nothing but a flashlight, in the dark, against a team of vandals who are drunk and have no regard for property not theirs is a foolish endeavor. His best case is to stand by while calling for the police, who will come "when they get around to it" because it will take lowest priority, while the vandals simply walk away. Police arrive, no evidence, no arrest. Repeat each time, and police response gets even slower. I suggest you might be better served with pole mounted solar flood lights that are motion activated, which also trigger security cameras that transmit video to someones smart phone. Set the lights and cameras in converging fields of coverage so one camera can record the destruction of the other [it will happen, count on it]. Resolution at night needs to be good enough to get good video recognition useable in court [think ahead, you do want to prosecute them] Also, post the area as "Private Property, No Trespass" etc.. to help make your case. Fence the river area? Vandalism accounts for a cost in the Billions of dollars across the nation. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I need some input on a possible approach to curbing vandalism in our > private park. Here's the deal: > > Our community has a 20+ acre private park that is shared with an adjacent > community. Access is limited by locked gates, but the park proper abuts a > small river that affords access from outside the area via trails. > > The park has a covered pavilion and a basketball court. There are no > lights or power, as the park is closed at dusk. > > We continue to have issues with graffiti and small fires being set by > vandals at night. They like to spray paint graffiti on the slab under the > pavilion and start fires in a metal trash can we have chained to one of the > pavilion posts. This behavior seems to be pretty consistent. They also > like to break large numbers of glass bottles on the pavilion and basketball > court. > > Our management company's initial reaction to this has been to suggest > hiring security on Friday and Saturday nights, in the hope that by doing so > for a time will discourage the miscreants who are doing this. However, > we're probably talking about $500+ per weekend. We have the money but I > question whether this will be a long term solution. > > I was wondering how effective a wildlife camera might be in capturing > images, video and audio of the perpetrators. I have looked at a couple of > these but not been able to determine if they record at night using infrared > or visible light. I suspect that we would be most successful in pulling > this off if the camera could be as stealthy as possible, as I am sure that > these people would immediately attempt to destroy it if discovered. > > Here's one I pulled off of Amazon as an example: > > > http://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-Trophy-Essential-Camera-Vision/dp/B00IID3O0Y/ref=sr_1_4/185-4576424-9019951?s=hunting-fishing&ie=UTF8&qid=1421328607&sr=1-4 > > If anyone has experience with these or direct knowledge of how they work > and the possible effectiveness I would appreciate hearing about it. > > Thanks, > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
