With 1 spy camera on the streets per 25 Brits - not counting traffic cameras - they already have that! And the ratio is undoubtably far higher in Britain's crime-plagued urban areas than in rural areas. But it's not keeping the cameras from being destroyed at will by the hundreds weekly!
Yet spy cameras aren't reducing serious crime in Britain; instead, serious crime has steadily climbed there as their street spy camera network increased. In fact, within the past month, two girls were kidnapped and murdered there and taken 17 miles - but none of it was caught by any spy camera.
Yes, many U.S. traffic cameras have had "cameras to watch cameras" put in - but none could stop what an Associated Press article a couple months ago reported was happening already: the traffic cameras were simply shot, possibly from hundreds of yards away. (The Brits - lacking guns - can't do that, but the weak point of U.S. spy camera and traffic camera systems is a large ground-level metal box at each containing over $10,000 worth of control electronics.)
And don't forget, spy cameras don't work well at night - let alone in fog. Street spy cameras here in Burlington, North Carolina are up about twice the height of local utility poles - or "in the clouds" many nights!
--Henry Bowman's right hand tightened around the walnut grip of the Solothurn S18-1000. The weapon had been a present from his Father, given to him on his fourteenth birthday in 1967. Cost $189.50 back in the sixties Henry thought irrelevantly. I thought that was a steal. Dad's friends thought it was astronomical. Wonder what they'd think now. --UC