But nearly seven years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, inspired a marked increase in the security networks, “no systematic national research has been undertaken to assess their effectiveness,” reports MSNBC.
Several regional studies have yielded discouraging results, such as a University of California Berkeley report that showed San Francisco’s 68 surveillance cameras have apparently not deterred criminals from committing assaults, sex offenses or robberies.
Besides the data, or lack thereof, the cameras face another challenge: privacy activists.
Naysayers may have a hard time convincing those in favor of the cameras otherwise, however.
Lauri Turner, owner of the Hatbox Haberdashery in Austin, for instance, said her shop had been the victim of more then half-a-dozen crimes. “I don’t care about the perpetrator’s rights anymore, at all,” she said.
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