Surveillance cameras
Do cameras in public places actually make anybody safer? No, says Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security expert in his latest Crypto-Gram newsletter.
BBC:
CCTV is not as useful in the fight against crime as was previously thought, according to government research.
The 178 video cameras that keep watch on San Francisco public housing developments have never helped police officers arrest a homicide suspect even though about a quarter of the city’s homicides occur on or near public housing property, city officials say.
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, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe.