The use of closed-circuit television in city and town centres and public housing estates does not have a significant effect on crime, according to Home Office-funded research to be distributed to all police forces in England and Wales this summer.
The review of 44 research studies on CCTV schemes by the Campbell Collaboration found that they do have a modest impact on crime overall but are at their most effective in cutting vehicle crime in car parks, especially when used alongside improved lighting and the introduction of security guards.The authors, who include Cambridge University criminologist, David Farrington, say while their results lend support for the continued use of CCTV, schemes should be far more narrowly targeted at reducing vehicle crime in car parks.
Results from a 2007 study in Cambridge which looked at the impact of 30 cameras in the city centre showed that they had no effect on crime but led to an increase in the reporting of assault, robbery and other violent crimes to the police.
Home Office ministers cited the review last week in their official response to the critical report from the House of Lords constitution committee on surveillance published earlier this year. The peers warned that the steady expansion of the “surveillance society”, including the spread of CCTV, risked undermining fundamental freedoms, including the right to privacy.
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May 18th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
That’s not true. After being introduced, London’s crime went down by over 23%. Where’d you get your statistics from?
Unknown Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Then explain the increase in knife crime. Where have you been over the past few years? The new figures indicate that in the year 2007-8 there were some 277 deaths from stabbings in England & Wales alone (the highest recorded figure for 30 years). This represents an average death toll as a direct result of stabbings of over 5 for every week of the year! And you can google knife crime in london stats to see for yourself. That means that knife crime has increased by 38%. So where did you get your stats from?
Snooperman Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
….and where do you get yours mr What???
Outrage Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Bullchunks! The crime just went INDOORS, out of camera sight. And there was more MASKED crime. But what is really ’surprising’ is that the security cameras NEVER seem to capture images of the COPS ‘behaving badly’. Funny that last one.
King Kong Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 12:43 am
I know – let’s have cameras indoors as well!… problem, reaction, solution – gee, ain’t it easy?..
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May 18th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
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May 18th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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Alexis Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Fact: Alex Jones uses the same fear mongering main stream media uses, just on the side of the truth movement.
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May 18th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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May 18th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
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IAmActivist Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
statistics are from the home office itself. if crime was actually reduced they would be bragging about it – if anything crime is probably worse than they say it is
fredtomps Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I made this vid as a public service to inform you people about the technlogy in use right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page invasive technology
fredtomps Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
WHAT”, What is your source on that??
jacque smith is the person giving the rubberstamp to all the draconian orwellian 194ish policies in UK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page al gore is a dick head
nas Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
june they plan to take out obama.
nas Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
your mom.
dave Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
where are your sources? “mr.what??”
hipo Reply:
May 20th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Type of crime is a factor, whilst it is true that disorderly, violent, mugging, low level crime
has been reduced other types of crime have proliferated.
The extent of the new or newly discovered crime is not yet available but some raw data should become available in the next year or two.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
…statistics lie…
Good job Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
So does just about every article here on Infowars.
Sir Baby De Porky Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
…and liars use statistics !!! ( Adolph Hitler )
hipo Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Do liars use colour tints? I remember the world used to look blue in colour from space
now it looks grey anybody else see that?.
dave Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
90% of every article in infowars.com is sourced to mainstream news.
the other 10% break mainstream news.
hipo Reply:
May 20th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Thank you Dave, is that a confirmation of colour change in photographs taken from orbit in the mid 60s . When compaired with photographs taken by the NASA shuttle
today late 90s?.
It looks to me that the high contrast KB1 to dark blue against bright white has
changed to a smudge of gray / bule goes to dull white.
hipo Reply:
May 20th, 2009 at 2:34 am
for bule read: blue
it`s early in the morning here sorry about that.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Click the “Read Entire Article” link at the bottom. This was reported on the Guardian UK. Ask them for the details.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Btw,
This article is about a discussion which has been going on for a long time. Essentially for the money spent on CCTV surveillance has been mainly taken from other projects which also provide help with crime. This means that 122222124444444444445fdb vfc vfv b
May 18th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Lol. sorry, my 12 month old daughter decided to run up and click the mouse on my laptop after she smacked the keyboard. What I was going to say was, this means that the same amount of effectiveness of CCTV surveillance on the public can be achieved without spending nearly as much money, and with far fewer cameras. You need to consider the fact that every major catastrophe that was caught on a CCTV tape normally occurs relatively in the same spots, this means that other spot’s privacies need not be intruded upon in the interests of civil security and national security.
But yes, I would also do the same as you did and inquire as to how the results were founded. This conclusion is interesting and certainly helps the conspiracy theorist’s claims, but i’d like to see the research behind the conclusion before I make any kind of solid judgement about it. I’ve learned in the past not to trust all major news sources without further proof of a scientific nature.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
GREAT VIDEO:
9/11 Lessons From Star Trek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CyjD6Ulf6s
hipo Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Thank you A++ ten out of ten Amen
Battle Lines Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I rememeber that old lesson from star trek,and it hit me one time,they
(enemy) do live off our fear,its a spiritual thing.
Pawn aganist pawn.Thats their game.
Christians leave your preaching off this board,you will win no converts.
Seek ye the lord,get on your knees.2 chronicles 7:14.
Souls are drawn to the the lord by his Spirit & love,not by your inane
preaching.Work out your own salvation.
hipo Reply:
May 20th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Thank you Battle Lines the skin is coming off of my knees can you advise how to reduce
damage.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Hear hear. CCTV is only up the post so we can all be on camera and become famous….
hipo Reply:
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 am
Mad news from the bullrin Birmingham England can`t wait to see what CCTV gets out of that.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
We are feeding the system we are all fighting against! Here’s a video that explains very simply a movement that offers a peaceful solution, yet it’s the most powerful thing we can do! A pathway to freedom that makes sense!!
http://www.warnthepeople.org/be-prepared.html
May 18th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
“…they had no effect on crime but led to an increase in the reporting of assault, robbery and other violent crimes to the police.”
Translation: These things don’t do crap to make your streets safer, but they do provide tons of extra work for our police officers which is a great justification for increasing our police dept budgets.
A larger law enforcement budget = more police to enforce state-acceptable behavior on you.
Don’t fight the system:
Replace it
http://socialviability.com/
May 18th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Great profit centre for corrupt BAE & others!
May 18th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
CCTV is a scam, rip off revenue stream for the criminals that run, monitor and profit from them.
What a load of shite.
http://911essentials.com says take them all down and find out who was paid off to put them up and arrest them.
911essentials is a primer portal introduction to the New World Order Corporate Banking Police State, its plans for one world government and their worship of the fake science Eugenics.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
You Think You Know? Truth-It! It’s time to unlearn what you’ve learned. Our future depends on it.
Find the truth & more.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Criminals, Terrorist & 911 Truthers are the scum of the earth! Some folks feel CCTV is an infringement on personal rights, but I feel that public safety supersedes that argument. I support CCTV along every public street and inside every commercial building.
hipo Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
What virtue in sounding foolish?.
Battle Lines Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Oh, “but i feel”…Well then, you will lose your liberity and get the security
of the caged bird.
Oh,i need CCTV in my bedroom so i dont have to sleep with the lights on.
“No problem,we have one for your bunghole also”.( sorry about that last
sentance Mr Jones)
Hey, if you want to see a truly amazing movie,i was on that google vids,and
for shits and giggles punched in “Brave new world”.Had no idea there was
actualy a movie like that.The P.C., double talk,& 1984 theme talk is truly
supreme.The brainwashing,the talk of a soma (lol) break,Its a mind F*#@
hipo Reply:
May 20th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Alex how can we give fight details if the posts are not numbered there must be a reason this
post is not coming up (staying up) and it can`t always be the spelling.
Who cares if the spelling is rough any way?.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u03TfQN1pXo
May 18th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
CCTV is an after the fact ploy to watch innocent people. Criminals don’t care if the tv is on or not. They’ll shoot ya, rob ya, beat ya and hope the camera gets their good side.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:27 am
NEW VIDEO – COP PUSHED WOMAN DOWNSTAIRS FOR NO REASON-THEN CHARGES HER WITH ASSAULT,VICTIM GETS DEATH THREATS FROM COP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixvrMGIPOpk
May 19th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I have ran through countless yellow lights and several red lights that have the cameras set up so “catch” people running red lights. I have never received a ticket, so this leads me to believe they are just getting the public used to being watched.
May 19th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Obammy has done a wonderful job as a puppet for the elite. Can’t wait for him to stand in front of God claiming well I drove demons out of people and did wonderful wonders in your name and Jesus replies” Depart from me ye work of iniquity, for I never knew you”.
May 19th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
cctv a paranoid notion if ya paranoid cctv loves ya if ya not then the giv have failed in there mind set agenda 1984 is here folks get used to it
May 19th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
music for the revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2V9-7Klr7w and polygraphradio.com
May 21st, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Just like car alarms….to many to care about or monitor. We can help dismantle most or all of the cctv camera’s, just ask us for our help.