Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved

[Invisigoth]

Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved


London has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million, figures show today.
But an analysis of the publicly funded spy network, which is owned and controlled by local authorities and Transport for London, has cast doubt on its ability to help solve crime.
A comparison of the number of cameras in each London borough with the proportion of crimes solved there found that police are no more likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those with hardly any.
In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average.




http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...ved/article.do


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France now wants to do the same and spread thousands of CCTV cameras across Paris in response to the London attacks....Money that could be better spent on manpower/equipment/salaries?

What's your take on CCTV?

[SOG]

nice. later on you get foolishness passed like this:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...d.php?t=121102

or the patriot act made permanent.

i think it opens a door that really didnt need to be opened in the first place. just because times get uneasy or rough doesnt mean you throw everything out the door.

my picture of french people is that they are very much into their freedoms and would never let this fly.

however the government will do whatever it wants anyway.

[oregano]

CCTV's do discourage criminals up to some extent, especially the ones who have watched CSI. On the other hand they also give a false sense of security to people, by this I mean that cameras can't bring you back to life. Maybe Europeans should catch up with Americans, in LA the PD is already getting UAVs. We all know the advantages of UAVs.

[Herrmannek]

What you can expect from autonomic camera when on recording you can't recognize face most of the time and even recognizing silhouette is often impossible.. BTW do Brits have any cool software system to manage those cameras? Or this is a dumb recording studio with bunch of additional guys watching live feed of at most 1000 of chosen cameras. I'm pretty interested of its capabilities, so if you know anything pass the link....

[8thidpathfinderpower]

Its not that the cameras do not work, but rather it is an issue of big brother wanting to save us all from our selves.

In the United States, we really need to be asking questions about what protection we need, and those freedoms we would lose otherwise.

In a world where fear rules all, and fear is an effective tool used to control a given population, we must ask our selves, is high tech security like digital voice recognation, profile analysis, or syphisticated listening devices are really a good measure, or are they tools for some one watching for amusment, or are they something more sinister.

I am not a fan of so called "security" measures that are sold to governments, and then sold to the public at large because someone is scared, and they want to save us all, or am I a fan of government wanting to think that survailence is the anwser to everything.

Government in the USA, is too big, too powerful, and too inept to be allowed to have cameras to monitor crime, and its time we took back what we gave.


This post may seem off topic, because it deals with the subject at hand on a much broader scale. But trust me, it is right on topic, because in my opinion, monitoring for crime only succeeds in spying on ordinary, honest people. And, thats why 80% of crimes are still never solved.