Brooklyn cops are urging residents to fight back against package-snatching porch pirates — with $10 fake security cameras.
It’s a low-budget way to scare away lowlifes amid a spike in home robberies in the Canarsie area, 69th Precinct officers said at a neighborhood meeting this week.
“[If you] can’t afford the real thing, get a dummy camera,” Officer Ashmeed Paltoo told a crowd of about 50 people at a precinct meeting Wednesday. “They’ll think twice about robbing your home.”
The fake cameras feature a glass-like dome and blinking red lights, and should be placed in plain sight near your front door, he said.
After his crime-fighting advice, the audience at the meeting burst into laughter.
And some NYPD officers were skeptical that the faux cameras would actually help deter crooks.
“Oh, my God . . . . Why would you tell people that? That’s supposed to deter criminals?” said one high-ranking Manhattan cop.
But some audience members hailed the move.