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This is true unfortunately. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-subway-woman-fire-c946bb951f67116e1bfb399f99ab5062 https://apnews.com/article/new-york-subway-w
by janalsncm 2y ago
This is true unfortunately.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-subway-woman-fire-c946bb951f67116e1bfb399f99ab5062 https://apnews.com/article/new-york-subway-woman-fire-c946bb...
If there is a “bright” side it’s that they caught the guy almost immediately because of cameras. It will take some time, but my hope is that eventually criminals will understand that cameras now make escaping from a crime impossible.
Solve rate goes up -> crime rate goes down -> solve rate goes up even more.
- bennettnate5 2y agoI'm not sure someone intent on burning a person to death in public is going to be very deterred by the knowledge that cameras are recording their acts.
- SoftTalker 2y agoIn fact they may encourage him.
- cowhow 2y agoI don't have stats, but I strongly suspect the set of NYC people aiming to burn others to death in public (and ruin their own lives in the process) is quite small. The presence of cameras is almost certainly a net positive for reducing crime
- saghm 2y agoYes, and the presence of cameras would presumably mean that if the parent commenter's prediction comes true, the crime rate would go down even more as crimes of opportunity vanish and crimes from people who are disturbed enough to do things like that are still quite rare.
- kennysoona 2y ago> eventually criminals will understand that cameras now make escaping from a crime impossible. In NYC most of the time the cameras are such low resolution that when they post a photo of someone wanted for a crime it's impossible to make them out at all.