https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvg48d/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ring-amazons-surveillance-camera-company

Ring, Amazon’s home security company most known for its doorbell camera, has been quietly creating a massive private surveillance network. The company has formed partnerships with at least 225 law enforcement agencies, enticed cities to finance discounts on its cameras with taxpayer money, and worked with police to organize package theft sting operations in several U.S. cities.

Motherboard has spent the last couple of months digging into Ring and its influence across the country. Our reporting has been informed by more than 1,400 pages of emails, contracts, and presentations sent between Ring, law enforcement, and government workers in cities around the country. We've published articles about these documents as we've received them, and we are still gathering a full picture of Ring's partnerships with government and law enforcement. But with each story, that picture is getting clearer.