Tuesday 6 May 2008

Does cctv make one feel safer?




It is said that britain is the most watch country in the world. However does people feel safer or does crime rate decrease. These are some of the question we need to asked ourselves. Over the last five years or so we have slowly become a state of big brother and by the looks of it our rights to privacy may be taken away too. Thers is notting wrong in finding ways and means to combat crime but on the other hand their should be some amount of balance. Critics may argued that for us to feel safe and crime to be combat we have to make some form of sacrifice.




They will also argued that we are living in a changing world where we no longer have to content with crime but also the treath of international terroism. It is said that britain have over five million cameras and still increasing at a high pace. My concern is that could some of that money be spend other things apart from cctv cameras. Lets face it fighting crime should be everyone business not just the state there are certain simple things we as citizens can do to help reduced crime in our community. The authority should do every thing within their power to empower the people by lending more on the ground support. installing more cctv is not the answer.

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