{"id":941,"date":"2008-01-18T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T08:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=941"},"modified":"2008-01-18T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T11:34:32","slug":"cctv-useless-against-drunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"CCTV useless against drunks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/01\/17\/ncctv117.xml\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surveillance cameras do little, if anything, to prevent late night alcohol-fuelled crime and violence on Britain&#8217;s high streets, the country&#8217;s most senior police officer in the field has admitted.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>He also admitted the public had been &#8220;misled&#8221; into believing that installing camera systems would have a big impact on anti-social behaviour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to say only those thinking &#8216;rationally&#8217; about CCTV surveillance will be deterred from criminal activity. In fact most people don&#8217;t think about CCTV, never mind rationally even when sober &#8211; as a general tool it is bound to be a remarkably ineffective deterrent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> To combat the problem, Mr Gerrard said he would like all camera owners and operators to be required by law to produce high quality images using a standardised system so the police could use them effectively in court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately Mr Gerrard fails it. Higher quality images will not increase the &#8216;rationality&#8217; of the &#8216;law-abiding&#8217; general public. Higher quality images will not remedy the problem of indiscriminate (non-targeted) CCTV capturing irrelevant images of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph Surveillance cameras do little, if anything, to prevent late night alcohol-fuelled crime and violence on Britain&#8217;s high streets, the country&#8217;s most senior police officer in the field has admitted. [&#8230;] He also admitted the public had been &#8220;misled&#8221; into believing that installing camera systems would have a big impact on anti-social behaviour. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}