To the tune of over £200million and millions more on the way as they are being re-enforced to resist vandalism.
Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved
"There are now 10,524 CCTV cameras in 32 London boroughs funded with Home Office grants totalling about £200million.
• Hackney has the most cameras - 1,484 - and has a better-than-average clearup rate of 22.2 per cent.
• Wandsworth has 993 cameras, Tower Hamlets, 824, Greenwich, 747 and Lewisham 730, but police in all four boroughs fail to reach the average 21 per cent crime clear-up rate for London.
• By contrast, boroughs such as Kensington and Chelsea, Sutton and Waltham Forest have fewer than 100 cameras each yet they still have clear-up rates of around 20 per cent. "
Shock I say. Shock.
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However, despite all of those statistics, do not expect those who support Big-Brothering everyone to stop.
Instead, it will be the standard fallacy of "Do what we are already doing, just HARDER!"
Anyone want to time how long it takes for this kind of stupidity to catch over here?
Yes, CCTV wouldn't stop any crimes, but a robot cop may be can do It :-)
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