South Korea deploys hologram police officer
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·August 23, 2025makeitdouble
The article has no mention of how the crime rate is going outside of the park...is there good sources on the subject ?
Looking around, Numbeo keeps an index every year, and for South Korea in general it went from 25.5 to 24.9 for 2023->2024, with a general downward trend since 2021.
Cute story, but looks like crime rate is going down more broadly ?
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
hereme888
An owl, but for criminals.
zdw
How long before we get a K-drama where some lonely single falls in love with the hologram?
deepfriedchokes
netflix-greenlit.meme
pizzly
I can imagine cameras connected to AI. AI detects crime in action (beating or something) and initiates the hologram which says cease now the police are coming . Might prevent a a crime from becoming bigger.
gus_massa
> It pops up every two minutes to deliver a pre-recorded audio message reminding passers-by that they are being watched by security cameras
Was the reduction of crime caused by the image or by the cameras?
a012
It’s working because:
> people were too scared to enter a park with a “ghost police officer”
esafak
A scarecrow for humans.
PaulHoule
This has to be something like Pepper's Ghost right?
crooked-v
From the photo, I would bet it's a projection onto a person-shaped glass or plastic standee, maybe with some texturing and projection mapping to add a "3D" effect.
null
Staff helps! I had this thought today taking the train here in Japan, why I feel safe compared to other countries. Every station is staffed with a real person. Most trains have at least two people in them. One driver and a second staff announcing and checking doors. The staff is clearly visible and in uniform. I know Japans base safety level is higher than the rest of the world. But I think putting trained staff in uniform on display would improve the situation everywhere.