London's CCTV network is a waste of cash

What a great experiment in citizen surveillance.

London's CCTV network is a waste of cash

LONDON'S 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV network, which costs £200 million, might as well be cardboard boxes on the end of sticks. According to an analysis of London's publicly funded spy network, the whole shebang is hopeless at helping coppers solve crime. Coppers were no more likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in those with hardly any, the analysis says.

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Tell you what.

You need less surveillance and more guns in the hands of citizens who know when and how to use them!

It wouldn't take a New York second to stop a lot of crime.