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I am doing a project on CCTV for Business Studies; I need a focus group to discuss CCTV technology. Please could you put you opinions and feelings on CCTV, the disadvantages and advantages that you think there are.
Sorry aboutgoing off topic here....
unknown kernel wrote:
> Well, Belldandy pretty much covered everything (teacher's pet!)
It's this "useless" Human Geography degree I'm doing....better find Tequila Sunset and show him !
unknown kernel wrote:
> Well, Belldandy pretty much covered everything (teacher's pet!)
It's this "useless" Human Geography degree I'm doing....better find Tequila Sunset and show him !
Hasn't Monte Carlo got almost 100% CCTV coverage? I seem to remember Clarkson going there on Top Gear and leaving a £50 note under the windscreen wiper and walking off for an hour, coming back and it was still there. So you might want to look at that.
(Or it just may be that no-one in Monte Carlo needs to nick a £50 note?)
(Or it just may be that no-one in Monte Carlo needs to nick a £50 note?)
Well, Belldandy pretty much covered everything (teacher's pet!) but here's my tuppence worth:
I really don't like the idea of being watched all the time. I don't feel protected, just violated. (After all, if someone does decide to come up and bash me round the head then the camera isn't going to do much to stop them.) People might say that it's only the criminals who have to worry, but the law only works because it's selectively applied. A camera doesn't have the commonsense of a policeman. Most people break the law on a fairly frequent basis: soft drugs; traffic offences; the odd bit of accidental shoplifting. If cameras start to enforce the laws more widely then things could get out of hand.
It definitely displaces crime, as well, so unless you've got blanket coverage (expensive, invasive) then it's pretty bad at its job.
Oh, and quite a lot of cameras are just dummies, so they're completely bleeding useless.
I really don't like the idea of being watched all the time. I don't feel protected, just violated. (After all, if someone does decide to come up and bash me round the head then the camera isn't going to do much to stop them.) People might say that it's only the criminals who have to worry, but the law only works because it's selectively applied. A camera doesn't have the commonsense of a policeman. Most people break the law on a fairly frequent basis: soft drugs; traffic offences; the odd bit of accidental shoplifting. If cameras start to enforce the laws more widely then things could get out of hand.
It definitely displaces crime, as well, so unless you've got blanket coverage (expensive, invasive) then it's pretty bad at its job.
Oh, and quite a lot of cameras are just dummies, so they're completely bleeding useless.
Cheers
James Pond wrote:
> I am doing a project on CCTV for Business Studies; I need a focus group to
> discuss CCTV technology. Please could you put you opinions and feelings on CCTV,
> the disadvantages and advantages that you think there are.
Okay here goes,
I think CCTV is a potentially great idea if only it could be used effectively. With most town's, city's e.t.c covered it has great potential, unfortunately it seems to just push crime away from retail areas into less protected areas. Even when an offence is caught the quality is usually so poor that only a vague idead of what the offender is like is possible, unless they have a v.obvious distinguishing mark. Look at where the CCTV is, all around retail areas and not residential/park e.t.c areas. A majority of CCTV is simply to alay the fear of consumers who may otherwise go to the large malls like Meadowhall, Bluewater and Merry Hill. Violent crime, the kind rising the fastest, takes place outsideof these areas. Look at the case of Damilola Taylor, CCTV caught him as he ws dying, but his attackers...er no. In many ways CCTV is the illusion of safety and isn't good enough to deter the hardcore criminals that creat the majority of crime. With better technology such as facial recognition and a national database of potential/known offenders CCTV could make a difference, but then it becomes a queston of civil liberties, because the criminals have all the rights in this country... You, as an ordinary citizen, have the right to be threatened with violence for your mobile, but that same person threatening you has the right not to be put in a database, or in many cases if a juvenile, even named.
Advantages
Illusion of security
Reassures retail customers
Moves crime away from covered areas
Could be expanded with new technology
Provides visual evience for some crimes (like the IRA London bombing of BBC last year)
Allows less policing of covered areas
Disadvantages
Does it really stop theright kind of crime that wories most of us ? No.
Only covers retail areas.
Mostly poor quality images.
Moves crime away from covered areas (displaces it)
Shortage of people to monitor them.
Many consider it a move to "Big Brother"
Civil Liberties groups protest about abuse ofit, despite no evidence.
Cameras are obviously sighted and easy to avoid if necessary, and hiding them invokes claims of "Big Brother" again.
Hope this is some help !
> I am doing a project on CCTV for Business Studies; I need a focus group to
> discuss CCTV technology. Please could you put you opinions and feelings on CCTV,
> the disadvantages and advantages that you think there are.
Okay here goes,
I think CCTV is a potentially great idea if only it could be used effectively. With most town's, city's e.t.c covered it has great potential, unfortunately it seems to just push crime away from retail areas into less protected areas. Even when an offence is caught the quality is usually so poor that only a vague idead of what the offender is like is possible, unless they have a v.obvious distinguishing mark. Look at where the CCTV is, all around retail areas and not residential/park e.t.c areas. A majority of CCTV is simply to alay the fear of consumers who may otherwise go to the large malls like Meadowhall, Bluewater and Merry Hill. Violent crime, the kind rising the fastest, takes place outsideof these areas. Look at the case of Damilola Taylor, CCTV caught him as he ws dying, but his attackers...er no. In many ways CCTV is the illusion of safety and isn't good enough to deter the hardcore criminals that creat the majority of crime. With better technology such as facial recognition and a national database of potential/known offenders CCTV could make a difference, but then it becomes a queston of civil liberties, because the criminals have all the rights in this country... You, as an ordinary citizen, have the right to be threatened with violence for your mobile, but that same person threatening you has the right not to be put in a database, or in many cases if a juvenile, even named.
Advantages
Illusion of security
Reassures retail customers
Moves crime away from covered areas
Could be expanded with new technology
Provides visual evience for some crimes (like the IRA London bombing of BBC last year)
Allows less policing of covered areas
Disadvantages
Does it really stop theright kind of crime that wories most of us ? No.
Only covers retail areas.
Mostly poor quality images.
Moves crime away from covered areas (displaces it)
Shortage of people to monitor them.
Many consider it a move to "Big Brother"
Civil Liberties groups protest about abuse ofit, despite no evidence.
Cameras are obviously sighted and easy to avoid if necessary, and hiding them invokes claims of "Big Brother" again.
Hope this is some help !
I am doing a project on CCTV for Business Studies; I need a focus group to discuss CCTV technology. Please could you put you opinions and feelings on CCTV, the disadvantages and advantages that you think there are.