CCTV just got an “upgrade”
One more example of the utter inability of our society to grasp a fundamental issue – the law in all its forms including CCTV is merely a deterrent. You can scare away the amateurs from committing petty crimes like littering but it does nothing in the more serious cases:
“Yes ma’am I appreciate that your husband was stabbed to death in a horribly violent attack but don’t worry we’ve got it all on CCTV”
Too late! The attackers get thirty years at most whilst the husband loses maybe 50 years of his life and a wife and children suffer similarly. Justice is retrospective and it fails us in these moments. CCTV does nothing to deliver significant improvement because like so much else it doesn’t tackle the hard issues – why do we continually waste money on these largely pointless pieces of technology? Time to get real, please.
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