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London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-to-be-installed-in-your-home dept.

stoilis writes "CCTV cameras across London help solve almost six crimes a day, the Metropolitan Police has said. According to the article, 'the number of suspects who were identified using the cameras went up from 1,970 in 2009 to 2,512 this year. The rise in the number of criminals caught also raises public confidence and counters bad publicity for CCTV.'"

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  1. Re:Cost:Benefit? by adolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Especially as most people convicted aren't actually punished anyway. What's the point in using expensive technology to catch a thief then just giving him a small fine or a caution?

    What's the point of giving petty* thieves more than a small fine or a caution upon conviction?

    Should everyone, no matter how minor or severe the infraction, be sent to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, where they get to make big rocks into little rocks until they die and get buried under a small white cross across the way from their cell?

    Should the presence of video evidence, or the lack thereof, contribute to such sentencing? Or perhaps more importantly: Should the expense of such video evidence be a factor in the sentencing?

    Discuss.

    *: I wanted to use the word "minor" there, as in "minor infraction." But that might be confused with "minors," so I didn't use that word. "Petty" is the best I could come up with, though it doesn't quite fit either, but at the same time I wanted to be concise. In a twist of irony, in the course failing to conjure a better adjective than "minor" for the sake of being concise, it seems that this footnote has eliminated all concision in an attempt to explain my choice of words lest they be misconstrued by the pedants here (of which I am one). Bummer.

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  2. Re:Cost:Benefit? by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's why Britain has sky-high crime rates compared to execution-happy Texas.

    Oh wait....

  3. Not so great for the victim by Garrynz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If someone wanted to murder and rob me I would rather a policeman standing where the camera is rather than the camera recording me getting murdered.