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

[gingerjedi]

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.

[Spacecadet]

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

[doodab]

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

[milanbenes]

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.

[BlasterBates]

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]

Birmingham stops Muslim CCTV surveillance scheme | UK news | The Guardian



Milan.