On 9/11/07, shiv sastry wrote: > When I was in the UK (until 1990) it was already a very highly > "surveilled" (does that word exist?) society. Revisting the place from time > to time I have found that surveillance has only increased - but surprise > surprise - people are no longer able to break laws that they used to break. > > The surveillance in the late 80s and early 90s was not government > security agency surveillance, but private surveillance. >
do you have any statistics to this effect... that cameras have reduced or prevented crime ? I think surveillance cameras acting as a crime preventive is really a misnomer.... half the surveillance cameras in europe are probably there because of EU regulations and requirements... On the the other hand, take a look at south africa, one of the most heavily surveiled countries, yet the cities have crime rates rivaling rio di janiero...
