Porch Pirate: Fighting Crime One Porch at a Time

When a crime story appears on television or online, we often see a public plea for help identifying the perpetrators. The provided security camera recordings are often of such poor quality that it becomes difficult to take any meaningful action. In some cases, the recording only provides a partial picture of the crime. While it is possible that other useful information was captured on another camera in the neighborhood, that information may be difficult to access and correlate with the crime. Porch Pirate aims to address these challenges through an innovative combination of hardware and software