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		lenkite on April 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK police secretly downloading content from suspec... Only MI5/GCHQ/OSCT can answer your questions with actual numbers. (EDIT) There are several studies on effectiveness of camera surveillance on crime prevention.The UK unlike other nations actually has a lot of material here. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2011.6...

gmueckl on April 30, 2019 [–]

I haven't followed up. Are these numbers published? If not, I would tend to assume that they are too embarrassing to show. But despite my bias, I'm actually curious.

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