Surveillance Cameras in Britain Not Effective?

zymurgy_cat writes "An interesting piece in The Christian Science Monitor questions whether or not the 4 million plus cameras in Britain are effective in deterring crime. It touches upon the usual issues of privacy, who has access to the tapes, and so forth. Despite this, people still seem to prefer the cameras."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Don't feed the trolls

[XaXXon]

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Re:Deterrence is not the only factor

[blue trane]

It turns out as they have redeployed the cops _they_already_have_ to sections where smaller crimes were occuring (theft, prostitution, small area dealers, etc.),

Here in Seattle, the crack is so prevalent that the "Family" that controls its distribution probably controls most of the police force.

It's really insane. There is so much money in crack that the "Family" (local crackheads greet each other on the street with the term of endearment "Fam") can afford to buy up businesses and bribe officials and put their own spy cameras everywhere. If you smoke crack, they know everything about you...

I know because I got fucked up by one of the Family here, a crack whore named Raquel. I pissed her off once in a Howard Johnson's by choosing to keep the rest of my crack for myself instead of exchanging it for sex with her. And she was able to get her entire Family to dog me for something like a year. Incredible. Absurd. Ridiculous. One skanky crack whore can get a whole city practically to turn their backs on some poor cluck. Just because she had deeper throat and pockets than I...

Yep I'm bitter. The best I can do I figure is try to warn others who may follow down the path I went. So if you are in Seattle, watch the fuck out for a raquel (aka rachel). You have been warned.

My journal has more on this...

Just going from the headline ...

[timothy]

Oh, I bet surveillance cameras in Britain are effective.

They're probably effective at making people feel watched and uneasy whenever they're in any public space, on the reasonable basis that they might be being watched and recorded.

They're probably effective in wearing away (a big lop this time) at the idea that governments should exist to serve citizens, rather than the other way around.

As you were, citizens.

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