CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'

[Barman]

Huge investment in close-circuit TV technology has failed to cut UK crime, a senior police officer has warned.

Det Ch Insp Mike Neville said the system was an "utter fiasco" - with only 3% of London's street robberies being solved using security cameras.

Although Britain had more cameras than any other European country, he said "no thought" had gone into how to use them.

Evenin' All


A Policeman Yesterday

What a surprise! 

Millions of cameras covering everybody’s movements (?) yet they don’t stop crime. Why? At a guess I’d suggest that criminals either go somewhere else or wear a ‘hoodie’ so they can’t be recognised…

I bet they’ve got billions of hours of footage of unidentified ‘hoodies’ committing crime. 

Just think how many police patrols all those cameras, control centres and operators would have paid for! 

[Darwins Selection]

Just put on cross-hairs and attach a rifle.

I would volunteer to do my stint operating the remote. 

[Nick]

IN some parts of the country they have loudspeakers. Someone shouts "Oy, you.Stop doing that". And they don't stop doing it.

Science. A wonderful thing.

[Barman]

IN some parts of the country they have loudspeakers. Someone shouts "Oy, you.Stop doing that". And they don't stop doing it.

Science. A wonderful thing.

Perhaps if they shouted "oi u st dn tht" or some such? 

[Nick]

My neighbour's child (at Grammar School) is supposed to be reading Macbeth.

Yesterday he asked his mother if she could get him a version in "text spk" so he could understand it.

I shall be punching him later

[Snoopy]

They do a comic book version of it now! 

[Darwins Selection]

My neighbour's child (at Grammar School) is supposed to be reading Macbeth.

Yesterday he asked his mother if she could get him a version in "text spk" so he could understand it.

I shall be punching him later

2B r nt 2B.

[Nick]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Bar Wench]

I did do plain translations of some of them when I was teaching the younger kids at my old school. It was the only way. 

[Barman]

I did do plain translations of some of them when I was teaching the younger kids at my old school. It was the only way. 

 

Now is the winter of our discontat
Made glorious summer by this trip to Spain;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon Nick's house
In the deep bosom of the patio buried.

[Snoopy]

[TG]

I did do plain translations of some of them when I was teaching the younger kids at my old school. It was the only way. 

 

Now is the winter of our discontat
Made glorious summer by this trip to Spain;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon Nick's house
In the deep bosom of the patio buried.

Cosmic.    Maybe you could write some poetry for the wedding speech?

[Snoopy]

I did do plain translations of some of them when I was teaching the younger kids at my old school. It was the only way. 

 

Now is the winter of our discontat
Made glorious summer by this trip to Spain;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon Nick's house
In the deep bosom of the patio buried.

Cosmic.    Maybe you could write some poetry for the wedding speech?

Don't encourage him!

[TG]

I did do plain translations of some of them when I was teaching the younger kids at my old school. It was the only way. 

 

Now is the winter of our discontat
Made glorious summer by this trip to Spain;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon Nick's house
In the deep bosom of the patio buried.

Cosmic.    Maybe you could write some poetry for the wedding speech?

Don't encourage him!

Indeed. No poetry in 'the commons' please. 

[Barman]

I did do plain translations of some of them when I was teaching the younger kids at my old school. It was the only way. 

 

Now is the winter of our discontat
Made glorious summer by this trip to Spain;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon Nick's house
In the deep bosom of the patio buried.

Cosmic.    Maybe you could write some poetry for the wedding speech?