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re: Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
gbaikie — (archived)

"Actually, I have no objections to the placing of security cameras in public places. After all, they are public places."

I believe the security cameras in England were useful in regards to tracking down some terrorist. So there was and is some good that comes up of them- and undoubtedly some abuse.
But nevertheless the purpose of cameras was to reduce crime and they don't.
The cameras and the monitoring costs money, money which could be spend on other things.

The issue is not whether some private party, can buy a camera and record the public space.
Or whether police officer can have a camera that records any arrests made.
But rather a public project that buys, installs some 4 million cameras [I seriously doubt these things cost say a little a $100 a per camera- knowing governments, probably more like around $1000 or more per unit- and I'm sure some the right people made a fortune on this public works project. And for a police officer that wants to watch TV and eat donuts it's a hellva job.]

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