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Originally Posted by STEED
Out of control kids (not all of them I stress) don't care about being seen on CCTV in fact they love it as they break in to cars smash things up and why because the law is soft thats why. I have seen plenty of programs showing CCTV footage and they don't give a toss at all. CCTV will never stop crime nor will it prevent crime, we need more police on our streets and no more red tape and mountains of paper work to bog them down.
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I'm not sure about police on the streets.
That does not tend to be a big deterrent and is not very cost effective.
I would rather see more police available for call-out then on street corners. Especially
because I live in the countryside. Sometimes we just can't get police cars out here
because they are all walking around the city tipping their caps.
Apart from police available for call-out, I suspect the solution lies in the problem and
not in the symptoms. Things like ensuring that young people can get steady jobs,
affordable housing and ways to fill their time through culture, sport and common
goals. Of course all this only helps with "casual" crime and not the deeply pre-
meditated.
*edit* The post I quoted seams to have been edited, do you want me to edit out the quote as well?