CCTV in Britain failed to cut crime rates
The United Kingdom is leading the Orwellian world in the number of video surveillance cameras suctioned by the public in a futile effort to control terrorism.
It now seems that the huge investment and the anti privacy losses were for naught - Less then 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images.
The issues involving the spread and use both of state sanctioned surveillance and video equipped private phones has the
AKBAN thinktank pondering the
implications of this visibility, both for martial arts experts and for inexperienced citizens alike.
"Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology"
From Guardian.co.uk10/05/2008
