{"id":4033,"date":"2007-09-24T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T18:47:54","slug":"surveillance-cameras-add-to-security-of-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/surveillance-cameras-add-to-security-of-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance Cameras Add To Security&#8230;.Of Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Britain, the land of the night of 1000 eyes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/article-23412867-details\/Tens+of+thousands+of+CCTV+cameras,+yet+80%25+of+crime+unsolved\/article.do\" target=\"_new\">80% of crime goes unsolved<\/a>.  Apparently, the police over there don&#8217;t use them to dispatch actual officers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2007430813,00.html\" target=\"_new\">dangerous situations<\/a>, either:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A SCHOOLBOY has been caught on CCTV brandishing what appears to be an AK47 machine gun on a railway station platform.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster, aged about 15, and a friend got the gun out of a bag and then allegedly aimed the weapon at a terrified crane driver working on the opposite side of the tracks at Newton Station in Hyde, Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>Driver David Wood rang his boss who filmed the incident on CCTV cameras and called police.<\/p>\n<p>But after officers failed to turn up promptly, the youngsters disappeared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what are the cameras there for, if not to help solve crimes or to allow the police to dispatch officers to trouble spots immediately?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about budgets and shiny things for government bureaucracies.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theothersideofkim.com\/index.php\/tos\/single\/11020\/\" target=\"_new\">The Other Side of Kim<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Britain, the land of the night of 1000 eyes, 80% of crime goes unsolved. Apparently, the police over there don&#8217;t use them to dispatch actual officers to dangerous situations, either: A SCHOOLBOY has been caught on CCTV brandishing what appears to be an AK47 machine gun on a railway station platform. The youngster, aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17817,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/17817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}