surveillance -- just the facts
Submitted by frymaster on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 20:58.
| number of surveillance cameras the city of calgary plans to install as a pilot project to help "reduce crime" | 24 |
| estimated cost of this pilot project to calgary taxpayers, in dollars | 500,000 |
| rank of britain amongst the 'most surveilled nations in the world' according to privacy international | 1 |
| number of times the average londoner is photographed by a closed circuit tv (cctv) surveillance camera in one day | 300 |
| number of britons for every cctv camera in that country | 14 |
| year in which the british home office commissioned the "gill report" to study the effectiveness of cctv's in reducing crime | 2007 |
| number of the 13 sample areas studied in the gill report that showed a decrease in crime | 6 |
| number of those decreases in crime that was deemed to be statistically significant and attributable to cctvs | 1 |
| number of the 13 sample areas studied in the gill report that showed a increase in crime | 7 |
| number of police surveillance cameras installed by san francisco in 2006 to help "reduce the murder rate" in that city | 68 |
| cost to taxpayers of the san francisco surveillance camera program, in us dollars | 900,000 |
| number of convictions secured by surveillance camera footage in san francisco since 2006 | 1 |
| number of those convictions that was for a homicide | 0 |
| year with the highest homicide rate in san francisco's history | 2007 |
| maximum reduction in crime possible by the installation of cctvs in britain, according to a 2005 Narco study, in percent | 5 |
| maximum reduction in crime possible by the installation of better street lighting, according to the same Narco study | 20 |