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CCTVs don't solve crime in UK; Scotland Yard's answer: more CCTVs!
May 6, 2008 7:07am
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Bundercup, why don't you let the government install a camera in your head? In your bedroom?
The point is, like with most of these modern government ideas about 'security' - they don't actually help, they don't even make things harder for the criminals, just ordinary people.
Z.