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Re: Cctv
In my experience when a town is first kitted out with CCTV the crime rate drops dramatically. Everyone is aware of those cameras moving around and spontaneous muggings and theft will all but disappear in the town centre.
After a while, two things will happen. Crime and muggings will start to take place in areas outside of the cameras view especially on housing estates.... and there will also be the "idiots" that forget about the cameras completely and so the police will make more arrests as a result.
In my old town of Dunstable, cameras have been installed for a number of years and they have "witnessed" three murders that I can remember plus many serious incidents mostly outside nightclubs late at night.
They have been so effective that neighbouring towns have followed suite mostly by demand of the people that live in that area. They are expensive to operate but if a council can afford them, they are definitely beneficial and the feeling of "Big Brother watching us" is quickly lost.
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