freed 16 jannewaris 2004
A False Sense of Security
” Why does the widespread proliferation of closed-circuit television cameras in the UK go unchallenged, and even unnoticed? ‘CCTV cameras have a mysterious knack for justifying themselves regardless of what happens to crime’, Rosen explains. ‘When crime goes up, the cameras get credit for detecting it, and when crime goes down, they get the credit for preventing it.’ “
