The Open Records Project suggests that crime control cameras be publicly accessible.
A crime-ridden high street in north London has been branded the most spied-upon road in Britain, after it emerged that it is watched over by more than 100 closed circuit television cameras.
“Having so many cameras in one place actually makes police investigations harder because they have to divert so much manpower into checking footage from every single camera.”
Public accessibility to these and other cameras can possibly mitigate the manpower problem and has several advantages:
- It frees police from a low skill task to concentrate on high skill ones.
- It enables thousands of interested citizens to take responsibility for their own safety.
- It encourages trust of government.
- It substantially increases the risks to the bad guys of being caught or identified.