{"id":3699,"date":"2010-03-01T04:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T09:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2010-03-01T04:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T09:19:58","slug":"repost-cctvs-dont-make-us-safer-boing-boing-schneier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/01\/repost-cctvs-dont-make-us-safer-boing-boing-schneier\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: CCTVs don't make us safer Boing Boing :: Schneier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are only too ready to use this bias to reduce what we have to deal with. We somehow believe that we become safer by letting go of our rights\/privacy etc. Read the whole thing.<\/h1>\n
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Schneier: CCTVs don’t make us safer<\/h1>\n

By Cory Doctorow<\/a> at 5:12 AM February 26, 2010<\/p>\n

via Schneier: CCTVs don’t make us safer Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Bruce Schneier has written an outstanding essay for CNN on why sticking CCTV cameras on every corner doesn’t make us safer, and can make us less safe by opening us up to abuse, and by causing police resources to be misallocated. This is required reading for the twenty-first century. Bruce points out that where there’s a specific threat in a specific place — casinos worried about cheats, shops worried about shoplifters, parking garages worried about skulking muggers — CCTVs have some use. But as a catch-all solution to crime, they just don’t work well enough to justify their expense in resources and liberty.
\nPervasive security cameras don’t substantially reduce crime. This fact has been demonstrated repeatedly: in San Francisco, California, public housing; in a New York apartment complex; in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in Washington; in study after study in both the U.S. and the U.K. Nor are they instrumental in solving many crimes after the fact.
\nFROM HERE : Spy cameras won’t make us safer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are only too ready to use this bias to reduce what we have to deal with. We somehow believe that we become safer by letting go of our rights\/privacy etc. Read the whole thing. Schneier: CCTVs don’t make us safer By Cory Doctorow at 5:12 AM February 26, 2010 via Schneier: CCTVs don’t make … <\/p>\n

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