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I thought all those cameras were supposed to curb that kind of crime? Even on the short walk from my hotel to $CUSTOMER in Southampton (hardly a metropolis), I
by lb1lf 4y ago
I thought all those cameras were supposed to curb that kind of crime?
Even on the short walk from my hotel to $CUSTOMER in Southampton (hardly a metropolis), I counted more than forty surveillance cameras - and those were only the ones I could casually spot during a ten-minute walk...
- mytailorisrich 4y agoI think thieves quickly realised that public CCTVs do not actually prevent them from stealing and don't really increase their chance of being caught, either... In many (most?) cases public CCTVs are scarecrows.
- sebzim4500 4y agoThe cameras aren't put up by police. Almost all of them are put up by businesses in order to lower their insurance premiums.
- switch007 4y agoThere are loads of council-run cameras all over the UK, and they cooperate with/escalate to the police. A map of them in Southampton: https://www.southampton.gov.uk/council-democracy/council-data/data-protection/cctv-map https://www.southampton.gov.uk/council-democracy/council-dat... ("Comprises over 300 cameras, covering car parks and public spaces in the city and district", "Control room staffed 24 hours per day, 365 days per year") 320 in Plymouth: https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/crimepreventionandantisocialbehaviour/cctv https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/crimepreventionandantisocialbeha...