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The quality of the images is so bad with these I wonder what "security" at all they do provide. Scientific surveillance studies have shown that CCTV has no pos
by onreact-com 17y ago
The quality of the images is so bad with these I wonder what "security" at all they do provide.
Scientific surveillance studies have shown that CCTV has no positive effect on crime. Either the crime happens elsewhere or it happens anyways and just gets filmed.
The only thing that CCTV changed is that you have footage of masked burglars afterwards or you catch some people having sex in the act.
Statistics suggest that catching the criminals on tape does not mean more of them get arrested either so it's just about civil liberties being taken away.
- jacquesm 17y agoI'm quite strongly against CCTV but the claim that they are not a deterrent is false. 3% of the crimes solved in areas where CCTV systems are set up were attributed to that. This is a pittance, but it is 3% more than would have been solved otherwise. The real drawback of CCTV is the 'false positive' rate, and the fact that people that should not have access to the data (which was sort of the point of my posted link) are able to look over the shoulder of the people in control of the cameras. This is a serious invasion of privacy.