London, the most famous example of a surveillance city, sees far more crime than similar, privacy-conscious cities such as Berlin or Vancouver or Paris. So sur

London, the most famous example of a surveillance city, sees far more crime than similar, privacy-conscious cities such as Berlin or Vancouver or Paris. So surveillance is certainly no silver bullet. If you check the literature, you'll find that it tends to have modest benefits mostly on property crime, but some of that is simply moved to other areas. Violent crime is decidedly rare these days. I guarantee you there is no city or town in the US today that is not far safer now than the US average in the 70s. Of the remaining violence, murders are rarely committed by strangers. Just 11% in the US in 2016, for example. And those tend to be either mass shootings or otherwise psychologically disturbed individuals, who rarely care about capture. 0: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/nyregion/killed-by-a-stranger-a-rare-event-but-a-rising-fear.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/nyregion/killed-by-a-stra...