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One Crime Solved Per 1,000 London CCTV Cameras
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.'"
>>>"CCTV captures chilling moment drug-fuelled thugs beat OAP to death"
Yes and then there's these lines:
- "Philadelphia camera catches teen rampage in supermarket - 5 students arrested and jailed. More arrests expected"
- "Baltimore camera spies bank thief last week - cops apprehended crook this morning"
- "White Marsh Mall security cameras used to convict "parking lot murderer" caught in act"
Without cameras these people would have never been caught, since the crimes would have gone unobserved.
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