One Crime Solved Per 1,000 London CCTV Cameras

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 24, 2009 @11:09AM from the ready-for-my-closeup-mister-demille dept.

SpuriousLogic writes "Only one crime was solved for each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city's surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers. David Davis MP, the former shadow home secretary, said: 'It should provoke a long overdue rethink on where the crime prevention budget is being spent.' He added: 'CCTV leads to massive expense and minimum effectiveness. It creates a huge intrusion on privacy, yet provides little or no improvement in security. The Metropolitan Police has been extraordinarily slow to act to deal with the ineffectiveness of CCTV.'"

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USA... Here it Comes by Anonymous Coward · 2009-08-24 12:41 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Another program not working in Europe??? Great let's rollout it out in America... only bigger (more expensive) and not-so-better (OK, worse). Plus, we can destroy more people's freedoms at the same time... perfect. Long live the politicians and their brainless activities.