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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:43:04 -0400
From: Carl S. Webber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OT: LondonT Report TV Cameras Don't Reduce Crime
So why should big brother watch?
City spy cameras are 'failing to cut violent crime'
THE introduction of closedcircuit television cameras in city
centres has done little to reduce urban violence, according to
new research.
Unless the cameras are backed by police action, they are not a
deterrent and in some areas the number of assaults has risen,
probably because violence has been displaced to places such as
bars not covered by the cameras.
The study was carried out by the violence research group of the
University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff. The team
studied police and accident and emergency department records for
the number of assaults recorded two years before and after CCTV
cameras were installed in Cardiff, Swansea and Rhyl.
The report says that the International Victimisation Survey shows
that England and Wales, with 344,300 violent offences recorded by
police in 1996, have one of the highest levels of this type of
crime in the world. Hospital figures, which are seven times
higher than police figures, show that the scale of the problem is
likely to be even larger.
Over the period covered by the study, 22,442 patients in the
three centres asked for hospital treatment after assaults, while
the police recorded only 3,228 violent incidents. After cameras
were installed the number of such cases treated in hospitals fell
by only 1 per cent, although police records showed a 9 per cent
fall in the number of violent attacks.
The study unearthed contradictory evidence from the different
centres. In Cardiff, hospitals recorded a 12 per cent fall in the
number of assaults while police data indicated a 20 per cent
increase. In Rhyl there was a 45 per cent increase in hospital
cases but the police reported a 24 per cent fall in the number of
incidents. The numbers injured in Swansea remained constant but
there was a 44 per cent fall in cases dealt with by police.
The study concluded that the reduction in assaults in Cardiff was
a result of better police response. "Overall, accident and
emergency data does not suggest that CCTV installation reduced
town or city centre violence," says the report in the Journal of
Accident and Emergency Medicine, published today.
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