6 Jul
2001
6 Jul
'01
6:53 p.m.
Why aren't the citizens in the U.K. up in arms over
this and bashing
the cameras with rocks and doing other things to render them
ineffective? Why aren't effigies of the politicians who caused this
to happen being burned in the streets? Anyone with a few functional
brain cells should realize that such a system can easily cause many
problems for innocent people.
Great scifi book, Title: Oath of Fealty, Authors: Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle
Basically all about the willingness to trade video privacy, for near
absolute security (hey, it works in the book).
I LIKE cameras, and they will become more and more popular as the cost of a
camera and associated data transmission continues to drop.
My only great concern is that drug related crime, mostly addicts stealing
to get a fix, is not compressible. Many forces combine together to keep the
flow of drug related cash going at the same level or higher, and that
meanseffective measures don't tend to stop crime, just to shift it, and so
far each shift is to actually worse crimes. Car theft shifts to carjacking,
home invasion increases, all the really nasty stuff instead of fairly
benign property theft.