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Well, no, because they cost money. Every $1 spent on buying and maintaining useless cameras is $1 not spent on actual policing.
by mattmanser 9y ago
Well, no, because they cost money. Every $1 spent on buying and maintaining useless cameras is $1 not spent on actual policing.
- ryanlol 9y ago>Every $1 spent on buying and maintaining useless cameras is $1 not spent on actual policing. So, much better than nothing?
- pc86 9y agoIf you dream of a Utopian land without police officers, I hear Somalia is gorgeous this time of year.
- ryanlol 9y agoOh, just fewer. There’s probably less LE per capita in Scandinavia than there are in Somalia.
- ceejayoz 9y agoPer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen..., Somalia has roughly the same number of police officers per capita as Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and South Korea.
- andrewla 9y agoI was curious about it, so I looked at the underlying data and fixed the numbers on the wikipedia page based on the latest UN data available. Based on that, the number of police per capita is actually considerably lower.
- ceejayoz 9y agoWelp, I've lost the point, but human knowledge has improved. I'll count that as an overall win?