[silk] Everyone's surveilling

Binand Sethumadhavan binand+silklist at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 01:27:52 PDT 2007


On 12/09/2007, shiv sastry <cybersurg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 Sep 2007 11:03 pm, ashok _ wrote:
>
> > do you have any statistics to this effect... that cameras have reduced
> > or prevented crime ?
>
> Yes
>
> http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/bb.htm
> "The statistics show that video surveillance can improve security. With 90 %
> of banks now fitted with cameras, 50 % of robbers are identified and arrested
> within two years. Thanks to video surveillance in the Paris metro, 83 % of
> incidents are now detected, and arrests have risen by 36 %. The use of this
> technology in department stores has reduced shoplifting by two thirds. "

On the other hand, see this article (from slashdot):

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412867-details/Tens+of+thousands+of+CCTV+cameras%2C+yet+80%25+of+crime+unsolved/article.do

(or http://tinyurl.com/2n6zrz)

"A comparison of the number of cameras in each London borough with the
proportion of crimes solved there found that police are no more likely
to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those
with hardly any".

Binand

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