On Tuesday 11 Sep 2007 11:03 pm, ashok _ wrote: > do you have any statistics to this effect... that cameras have reduced > or prevented > crime ?]
Yes http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/bb.htm "The statistics show that video surveillance can improve security. With 90 % of banks now fitted with cameras, 50 % of robbers are identified and arrested within two years. Thanks to video surveillance in the Paris metro, 83 % of incidents are now detected, and arrests have risen by 36 %. The use of this technology in department stores has reduced shoplifting by two thirds. " But what is more interesting is that shoplifting is done by shop-staff in about third of cases, and surveillance affects their privacy and is used to watch them. A potential shoplifting staff member would have everything to gain by protesting that his privacy is being violated. I note that anyone who words in the "IT sector" works in a kind of fortress in which (as far as I know) he is not allowed to take in or take out data or data storage devices. His access to the world outside is limited by firewalls and his communication could be monitored by a system geared to do that. This kind of monitoring is done by the employer in a private company, and not by the police. Now surely an educated and well paid person should not be monitored in this way. Is this employee surveillance ineffective in preventing crime? Is this intrusion of privacy necessary at a all? I work in an environment in which nothing is monitored and have no idea how it feels to be honest and yet considered dishonest by default. I would like to see more security systems so I do not lose my cellphone, watch or money when I change into theater clothes and attend to an emergency. Some employees are surely the culprits in the absence of members of the public in the areas in which such losses occur, and they need to be identified. The loss of privacy that entails is acceptable to me. shiv > > 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...
