Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

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I'm realizing now that this would have been super useful when I worked in Loss Prevention way back when. Wish I had known...

Even without algorithm knowledge it should be fairly obvious that you can just fast forward several minutes and check if the item has gone missing.

Not the most efficient solution, but beats watching the entire tape in real time.