Monday, February 4, 2013

Surveillance cameras rarely solve crimes.

Surveillance cameras are a budget sinkhole that absorbs manpower for monitoring and review, often resulting in very few crimes solved and usually only unimportant ones at that. Recently a murder in Philadelphia was solved by revealing an exterminator passing by the murder scene both before and after the murder.

Now Philadelphia want to have merchants register all surveillance cameras so that their video feeds can be automatically checked by the police if a nearby incident is reported.

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