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Originally Posted by GeoffC
When I look around at our local city it is easy to see many parallels, not least of all the surveillance that is carried out both overtly and covertly
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London Transport had a poster up all over the place a few years back:
My local underground station has in the region of 30 cctv cameras (I've only counted of the two platforms, plus the ones in the booking hall and at the bottom of the escalators and extrapolated from there) - it's not in a major crime hotspot, it's not even a major station. It sits on one line, a couple of stops up from the end. My local-to-work station (and presumably others) have been putting out announcements about how the cctv cameras are watching us for our safety. Yet the BBC had a report a couple of weeks back that said only 1 in about 1000 crimes are solved by the use of cctv, and a senior police officer (I think) commented recently that there are too many cctv cameras for the amount of trained staff (he was suggesting that there should be more trained staff though, not less cctv cameras
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