Today in Digg, found this interesting article of the Times Online by Kevin Dowling
CCTV boom has not cut crime, says police chief
Photo by Ben Gurr
Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer piloting a new database.
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville said it was a “fiasco” that only 3 per cent of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV.
Mr Neville, who heads the Visual Images, Identifications and Detections Office (Viido) unit, told the Security Document World Conference that the use of CCTV images as evidence in court has been very poor.
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Britain has more CCTV cameras than any other country in Europe. But Mr Neville is reported in The Guardian as saying that more training was needed for officers who often avoided trawling through CCTV images “because it’s hard work”.
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To read the whole article – please go here.
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I really enjoyed 1984, but it was highly exagerated. I don't mind being watched, and I don't mind not being watched. Since I am not doing anything wrong I don't mind if someone watches me. But I feel perfectly secure and fine on my own when I am not being watched either. Until now nothing has ever happened in my life without leading me somewhere. Whenever I ask God “WHY” I hear Him laughing at me. So I stopped asking and trusted in His better judgement about what is good for me and what isn't.
paulo, frinds !
the very idea is destined to fail, anything which tries to ‘improve’ human behaiour by imposing restrictions from outside, only throws challenges to the highly cretaive human mind to find a way circuemventing it.
if only the powers that be had decided to spend one tenth of the money in changing the human beings from inside, turning him more meditative, it would have not only reduced number of crimes on steets, but also crimes against humanity, crimes against this planet committed in high profile board rooms, but the such a initiative would not be backed by multibillion dollar corporations who cannot see beyound their profits, those fools don’t even bother to think. profits for what !!
the game is on, not for long now, this runing amock of the collective human mind, like an automobile running down a slope without any controls, is going to prove damn costly for all of us. Hope, ….hope prevails. paulo even you are not doing more than paying lip service to this, not that u are obliged to, but you are in a position to.
No.
Big Broter is not only in the streets – he watches us also in internet!
The idea of a city-wide or nation-wide CCTV system is unsettling. Crime prevention is essential, but is it worth giving up our civil rights and privacy for? There is a difference between exercising caution and allowing oneself to be controlled by fear. Have people become so fearful of crime that this level of extreme surveillance is now justified?
I think that pandora gets it.
As far as am concerned we should all welcome Big Bro.
As long as u are aware and follow the script there is no harm in it.
Remember, we are all family.
Follow your intuition, u can’t go wrong.
I care!
But the idea was never to catch criminals, it was to make us feel we were/are being watched, to try to destroy our sense of personal freedom.
C o N T r O L
I wander what else people will invent…that actually don’t work properly anyway. Besides there’s this saying: “curiosity killed the cat”. :-)
love
Agnieszka
…The big brother can watch over, I do not care. If I care do you think it will make any difference?
I and my son were followed and watched close. We were in a store and a guy was stalking us. We found out latter that the stalker is a serial killer that target vulnerable people such as: mother and a child….
If we were PAID to be watched I wouldn’t mind. :D
Hugs, JJ
I don’t like being stalked!
The point is that the world is increasing becoming a closed society. When the Governments of the world start putting cameras everywhere, they crush freedom… This is not a joke. I have heard so many people say that if they do nothing wrong then everything will be ok… Well thats not true if they turn the things you do everyday into crimes. I live in the United States, and or constitution is in the middle of being picked apart by the powers that be. For instance, I saw a video on you tube the other day where peaceful women were being arrested for protesting the war (a right guaranteed to us by the first amendment) while the larger, more aggressive, group of people standing up for the war where left alone. Our voices in America are being crused. We are on the verge of a police state.. That is not just rhetoric either.. it is fact.. and like I said, when they make it a crime to be out of my house past 8 pm, and stick a camera right outside my door, that is it. There is no more freedom. Im scared for our future, honestly.. but when the stuff hits the fan, and the warriors are called to fight, i just hope that we all know who the enemy is
I really enjoyed 1984, but it was highly exagerated. I don’t mind being watched, and I don’t mind not being watched. Since I am not doing anything wrong I don’t mind if someone watches me. But I feel perfectly secure and fine on my own when I am not being watched either. Until now nothing has ever happened in my life without leading me somewhere. Whenever I ask God “WHY” I hear Him laughing at me. So I stopped asking and trusted in His better judgement about what is good for me and what isn’t.
I think that not catching criminals after they done crimes is important.Prevention is far more important.Education in school ,family,church ,I think someone didnt done everything .There are holes.People has not time for their children,Mother TV is taking real mother place.These are things to be solved.Cameras are common things nowadays.They lose power.criminals cannot care less.I hope things may change.
No I don’t really ,Unless it is successfully working then it is a waste of time and money .But its funny you mention Big Brother ,I seen it tonight and I have to say “I detest these shows “, my children watch it every blue moon thank goodness ,point is if your going to stick people in a house together or on an island and film them constantly why not put together a whole lot of different cultures and beliefs / backgrounds at least show the world that people can live in peace …and harmony not everyone is in to fighting/war or being the better country / religion . I think it would show that people can respect , honor and understand each other ..it would help break down the barriers of indifferences . Blessings Tania