I'm growing fond of CCTV cameras, but there aren't enough of them. Why not install them in random street light posts, where it might be done for peanuts using the existing electrical supply for energy and communication. Storage is cheap now too.
I gather some people don't like these cameras, though I don't recall their reasons, except they often quote 'if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to hide' as if this supported a case against the use of surveillance. I doubt anyone would be the slightest interested in seeing person after person on video, if indeed anyone was employed to do so except where a crime had taken place, so privacy isn't much of an issue.
It's not just of assisting in obvious mysteries such as the Joanna Yeates murder (which the existing small number of cameras appear to have assisted a great deal), but also for any crime, from car theft to antisocial behaviour.
Anyone wearing a hoodie or a blanket would obviously look suspicious too.
I gather some people don't like these cameras, though I don't recall their reasons, except they often quote 'if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to hide' as if this supported a case against the use of surveillance. I doubt anyone would be the slightest interested in seeing person after person on video, if indeed anyone was employed to do so except where a crime had taken place, so privacy isn't much of an issue.
It's not just of assisting in obvious mysteries such as the Joanna Yeates murder (which the existing small number of cameras appear to have assisted a great deal), but also for any crime, from car theft to antisocial behaviour.
Anyone wearing a hoodie or a blanket would obviously look suspicious too.
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