Drew HarwellFeb 2, 2023

New: Memphis spent $10 million installing thousands of 24/7 police-linked surveillance cameras, called SkyCops, on the promise they'd deter crime. But crime's only gone up. And even the cops who beat Tyre Nichols to death weren't deterred.

“Surveillance doesn’t prevent crime, even police crime. These officers knew they were on camera, and they still did this.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/

Memphis’s SkyCop cameras couldn’t prevent Tyre Nichols’s beating death

Nichols’s killing has offered a stark reality check of how ineffective the cameras can be in the face of real-world violence.

The Washington Post
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IIRC, London is the most surveilled city in the world with the highest density of cameras. Its been more than a decade since I looked into the results, but last I remember the cameras there were not effective in reducing crime over the long term. People committed spontaneous crimes at the same rate, and the premeditated crimes mostly moved to areas known not to have cameras.

Feb 2, 2023 at 4:09pmWeb