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This is hardly a new problem. It's simply an old problem with new technology: Stupid
police making unreasonable assumptions.
Such as:
Someone burgled a house. You were seen in the vicinity of the house. Therefore you
must have burgled the house
or
Someone set off a bomb in a hotel. You had been patronising that hotel. Therefore you
must have set off the bomb.
Of course, it's usually minorities (blacks, hispanics, Irish etc.) who the police are
'naturally' suspicious of, and therefore tend to be arrested for crimes there is no
real evidence they committed other than the classic 'being in the wrong place at the
wrong time' evidence. There was an article posted some time ago, I think relating to
the Diallo shooting, which said that black males know that if a crime is committed,
they had better clear off or they are likely to be arrested if they are spotted
anywhere near the scene.
Having it on film like this does make it easy to sue the other parties here at least.
If this fellow was black or Asian (the article doesn't mention his race) he would no
doubt be able to cry 'racism' quite effectively.
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:50:56 +0100 "c." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>Trial by CCTV claims innocent victim
>By: Kieren McCarthy
>Posted: 19/04/2001 at 16:38 GMT
>
>
>It may sound like a fictional short story but Allan Dunne was filmed,
>featured on TV as a criminal, arrested and questioned when he turned up to a
>police station to explain, suspended and threatened with the sack, all
>within two days and all thanks to modern CCTV surveillance technology.
>
>His crime? To take �20 out of his own account from a cash machine.
>
>Allan was caught on CCTV making the withdrawn soon after a thief had used
>the cashpoint with a stolen card. Undercover police assumed him to be an
>accomplice and released the footage they had of him to Granada TV's
>Crimefile programme. This went out on TV the next day, the Daily Mail
>reports.
>
>Allan immediately went to a police station with records of his bank account
>to explain the error but was arrested and questioned. He was eventually
>bailed and told to return in a month. Subsequently, his bosses suspended
>him.
>
>When he finally managed to get the truth of the matter across, Greater
>Manchester Police suddenly changed tack and apologised unreservedly. Mr
>Dunne can have his job back but he has yet to return because he says he's
>stressed out and people in the street will think he's a criminal. And can
>you blame him?
>
>The fact is that Allan has every right to sue not only the police but also
>Granada for showing the programme. And the fact remains that this would
>never have happened and would never have gone so far had it not been for the
>false confidence that people have in this surveillance technology.
>
>Just last weekend, a long feature in the Sunday Times went into this very
>scenario of innocent people being caught up in a web because data is
>accumulated so fast that people automatically assume guilt.
>
>As you may know, the UK is currently the most monitored place in the entire
>world. There isn't a street in London where you can't be picked up on CCTV
>cameras. The rest of the country is much the same. �
>
>
>
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