I've been told by somebody who runs a verification service that many private detectives are going through online sites. There is a local criminal defense attorney who has a YouTube channel. He was reviewing a significant case last year, and the amount of video LE had, from around the crime to the end. He said, "There is surveillance everywhere you go, every single place you go." "Word to the wise, it's almost impossible to commit a crime nowadays without getting it on camera."

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… there’s surveillance cameras in private apartment units, nor that it’s a crime to visit a friend.

In that incident/case, over 50% of the video came from public cameras. When he left the crime scene, it looked like a camera from someone's house. The lawyer mentioned that because there are cameras all around. Most newer apartment complexes do have security video systems outside and inside. Are some apartment dwellers adding their Ring cameras?

… inside the apartments?

I think so because I've seen a number of videos from apartment doors when a home invasion starts to happen. I think that maybe they put them where the door viewer is. I'm unsure about where they can because they rent the apartment.

I meant, inside the apartment units… not on the doors. Such that what actually happens within an apartment—within the bedroom of an apartment—could be caught on video,

Anything is possible about this subject. Many years ago, another guy that I knew told me something. He had been seeing a local lady multiple times a week. He had a classic case of va-jay-jay fever; sooner or later, all men fall for it. He mentioned that she had cameras in her in-call and recorded all her clients. She has been gone for years, and I don't know if it is true. I wondered why tell me this; I didn't like her and would never see her. Releasing that info would only hurt her business.  

For example, there could be a supernova in our part of the galaxy at any time. But I don’t worry about it.  

PI's work for clients, such as spouses.  They aren't just going to waste time looking for divorce evidence on anybody -- they are hired to track specific people.  Usually by a suspicious spouse.  This has nothing to do with law enforcement.
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If your spouse suspects you, you will get caught eventually.  It doesn't take much for your story not to match some verifiable detail.  You said you were at work, but your car was parked at a hotel across town.  You're cooked.
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There's no reason to get hotel security video when they can just whip out their smartphone camera and take a picture of your car license plate.  Hotels are just going to hand out visitor video to just anyone who comes asking for it.

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I meant Pi's working for clients such as SO, and that is what she said. There is a little bit more that was mentioned, but we know what they are looking for. I really avoid all "public" places like hotels. There are so many reasons, as you said, even the techniques that hotel staff use.

Hotel videos are not used too much for PFP because there are far easier/better ways, and people still need to avoid falling into that trap. Both clients and SW talk too much when getting "caught" or otherwise. They don't remain calm and don't speak. Most clients are not bomb-proof anyway, so they think about that. Noise level: there have been so many cases that have happened when it started with the staff, etc., hearing noises, like "bloody murder." Some ladies do think ahead. She books what is "called" 2-room suites. So the noise does not carry outside of the room. One hotel tactic I'm unsure of is valid, but my legal help mentioned it to me about a case. It was her room; after the client was there, she started ordering drinks to the room. She was a younger female by herself, so some Hotels along that strip do some leg work on the why.