Well if the cops actually turned up when my house was broken into I wouldn’t have to have my own CCTV system. But they don’t, and it seems like a pretty inoffensive protection system.
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Biohazard@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I hate it but the public want it. It’s looking over the garden fence, twitching curtian given HD cameras and a police budget. The public are idiots and will vote away their freedom so they can feel safe.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Watch a typical police show from 1990s and today. The modern cops routinely talk about how they have closed circuit footage of the suspect on pretty much any street.
Biohazard@feddit.uk 7 months ago
You are the suspect. The police are there for you, to suspect and investigate you.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ever read Judge Dredd comics? In one old one the Judges have the right to just walk into any citizen’s apartment and do a random search. Because there are so many laws, they always find something that’s illegal. One day the find a citizen with nothing contraband in their apartment. The rookie Judge wants to give the citizen a medal for being so upright, but Dredd triples the surveillance because only a really heinous monster would bother to keep their place so clean. [Of course, because it’s a comic, Dredd is right and the citizen is a Sov-City spy.]