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No way to uninvent the camera.

Telltale blue circles glow from the doorposts of rowhouses across Baltimore as the increasingly popular Ring video doorbell and other private security cameras keep a silent watch over the city’s streets, sidewalks and stoops.

The Baltimore City Council wants to incentivize more people to buy these kinds of surveillance systems and partner with the police department to share footage that could help officers tackle crime in their neighborhoods.

Councilman Eric Costello introduced legislation this week that would give residents a rebate of up to $150 if they install a system such as Ring or Nest. In return, people would have to sign up for the police department’s CitiWatch Community Partnership program, a registry that contains information about where there are private surveillance systems and who owns them.

These kinds of cameras are “critical in the crime fight,” said Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer, chairman of the public safety committee. “We’ve seen countless cases get resolved based on people’s security systems on their homes.”