Grauniad article, can't decide if it's an achievement or not

**BlasterBates** · 18 June 2010, 07:28

It was OK for the cameras to be there to spy on anti-social behaviour....but not terrorism..

Isn't terrorism also anti-social or am I missing something?

**milanbenes** · 18 June 2010, 07:36

quite,

a friend of mine in the smoke got a parking ticket because his car was seen by the camera on double yellows while he went to a cash machine or some such

and that's deemed acceptable

yet, the other is not

Milan.

**doodab** · 18 June 2010, 08:25

If a large group of people go on the rampage together surely that's social behaviour?

**Spacecadet** · 18 June 2010, 08:49

the CCTV system there included hidden cameras, there was also a ring of ANPR cameras around the area which recorded every single car entering and leaving.

That level of surveilance of an entire population is a rather large step in the wrong direction

**gingerjedi** · 18 June 2010, 08:59

Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post

the CCTV system there included hidden cameras, there was also a ring of ANPR cameras around the area which recorded every single car entering and leaving.

That level of surveillance of an entire population is a rather large step in the wrong direction

London is completely ringed with ANPR cameras so why not one neighbourhood of the second largest city? I know feck all about policing but I do know that terrorism is not going to be defeated by a poster campaign.

Grauniad article, can't decide if it's an achievement or not