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> the police actually showing up and doing something about it when they report a theft. That and this whole concept can only happen in places with low criminal
by bapak 1y ago
> the police actually showing up and doing something about it when they report a theft.
That and this whole concept can only happen in places with low criminality. In Thailand I occasionally find small shops that have a CCTV and that's it (but the total value of goods on display likely does not exceed $100)
- madaxe_again 1y agoOr just the insurers paying up because the police provided a crime number. This is how it works in the U.K. - everyone has cctv, not because it prevents theft or allows the police to investigate, but rather because it allows you insurance coverage for any losses.
- Anonbrit 1y agoIf insurance became expensive enough (and logically the price must continue to rise as claims increase) then there will be a financial advantage for companies to design their shops not to need such insurance
- socalgal2 1y agoI wonder what does it take to get a society to have low criminality. IIUC Japan wasn't always this way. Could other societies become high trust? Singapore is. It wasn't always
- Tade0 1y agoIf self-checkout stores[0] are a measure of being such a place: Ageing of society. I've read last year's statistics about my country's criminality and two things stand out: 1. It's half what it was 20 years ago. 2. The largest group of perpetrators are people in their mid 30s, not 17-20yo like it was two decades ago and they focus on online fraud, not actually going places to commit crimes. [0] Specifically corner shops with a self-checkout machine and just one person behind the non-self checkout counter who wouldn't be able to react anyway should anyone leave with the goods.
- rayiner 1y agoSingapore was very deliberate and quite heavy handed in bringing that about: https://paulbacon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/zakaria_lee.pdf https://paulbacon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/z...