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Busted Tech : Billions Spent
On Surveillance Society Fails To Cut Crime
YOUR
NEW REALITY
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
In the UK, some 4.5 million CCTV cameras, and billions spent
installing and maintaining them, has proven to be a complete
waste of money.
CCTV cameras don't stop crime, they just move it on, and
increase the work load for police and investigators. As Philip
K Dick pointed out back in the early 1970s, authorities can
have all the surveillance cameras and audio recorders they
want, but someone still has to sit down and sift the data,
and that's the cruncher.
Note in the story below how the alleged failure of CCTV cameras
to radically cut crime is used as an argument to now ramp
up the monitoring and surveillance of innocent people to extraordinary
new levels.
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From the UK
Guardian :
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.
The warning comes from the head of the Visual Images, Identifications
and Detections Office (Viido) at New Scotland Yard as the
force launches a series of initiatives to try to boost conviction
rates using CCTV evidence. They include:
· A new database of images which is expected to
use technology developed by the sports advertising industry
to track and identify offenders.
· Putting images of suspects in muggings,
rape and robbery cases out on the internet from next month.
· Building a national CCTV database,
incorporating pictures of convicted offenders as well as unidentified
suspects. The plans for this have been drawn up, but are on
hold while the technology required to carry out automated
searches is refined.
"We are [beginning] to collate images from across
London...The images are from thefts, robberies and more
serious crimes. Possibly the [database] could be national
in future."
Cheshire deputy chief constable Graham Gerrard,
who chairs the CCTV working group of the Association of Chief
Police Officers, told the Guardian, that it made no sense
to have a national DNA and fingerprint database, but to have
to approach 43 separate forces for images of suspects and
offenders.
...there were discussions with biometric companies "on
a regular basis" about developing the technology to search
digitised databases and match suspects' images with known
offenders.
The end aim is a national grid of cameras linked to a central
database (which will live on police and Scotland Yard servers),
with the video flooding in constantly 'searched' by face,
body and gait recognition technology to build up a virtual
CCTV life of those deemed worthy of surveillance.
That's after they release your image to the net because you
are suspected of being involved in a crime.
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