Just when you think you've seen it all on YouTube, another story pops up with a twist. This time it's from our fair city, Washington, DC. The owner of a neighborhood corner store, LeDroit Park Market, is sick and tired of being robbed at gunpoint... so he's posting surveillance videos of the stick-ups on YouTube (with help from an outraged resident), and in the prologue to the video he specifically calls out the Mayor, the councilmember, and the police chief, imploring them to fight crime in LeDroit Park. According to the Washington Post story, he's got their attention, and an arrest has been made. What's more, the community is rallying around the store, raising money to purchase an additional camera for the exterior. Has anything like this happened where you live? Is there a downside to this kind of community policing?


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