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Title: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Barman on May 06, 2008, 06:03:48 AM
Quote from: BBC Web Shite
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 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7384843.stm)

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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.  noooo:

Just think how many police patrols all those cameras, control centres and operators would have paid for!  Banghead
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 06, 2008, 10:26:27 AM
Just put on cross-hairs and attach a rifle.

I would volunteer to do my stint operating the remote.  evil:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Nick on May 06, 2008, 10:27:24 AM
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.
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Barman on May 06, 2008, 11:55:23 AM
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.
;D

Perhaps if they shouted "oi u st dn tht" or some such?  rubschin:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Nick on May 06, 2008, 12:07:51 PM
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 evil:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Snoopy on May 06, 2008, 12:11:47 PM
They do a comic book version of it now!  eeek:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 06, 2008, 12:12:58 PM
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 evil:
2B r nt 2B.
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Nick on May 06, 2008, 12:23:39 PM
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Bar Wench on May 06, 2008, 01:56:29 PM
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.  noooo:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Barman on May 06, 2008, 03:08:42 PM
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.  noooo:

 rubschin:

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.
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Snoopy on May 06, 2008, 03:11:57 PM
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Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: TG on May 06, 2008, 03:16:37 PM
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.  noooo:

 rubschin:

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.  noooo:  Maybe you could write some poetry for the wedding speech?
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Snoopy on May 06, 2008, 03:17:18 PM
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.  noooo:

 rubschin:

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

Don't encourage him!
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: TG on May 06, 2008, 03:19:13 PM
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.  noooo:

 rubschin:

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

Don't encourage him!

Indeed. No poetry in 'the commons' please.  cry:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Barman on May 06, 2008, 03:25:45 PM
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.  noooo:

 rubschin:

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.  noooo:  Maybe you could write some poetry for the wedding speech?
rubschin:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Snoopy on May 06, 2008, 03:34:02 PM
The wedding reception will decide his fate
If, when the spotlight falls upon his shiny pate
Poetry he spouts instead of a speech
Landlady, with a mighty screech
Will remove forever his ability to mate.
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: TG on May 06, 2008, 03:34:59 PM
The wedding reception will decide his fate
If, when the spotlight falls upon his shiny pate
Poetry he spouts instead of a speech
Landlady, with an almighty screech
Will remove forever his ability to mate.

Aha. Thats more like it.  happy088
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Barman on May 06, 2008, 03:35:32 PM
The wedding reception will decide his fate
If, when the spotlight falls upon his shiny pate
Poetry he spouts instead of a speech
Landlady, with an almighty screech
Will remove forever his ability to mate.
She would too...  scared2:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Nick on May 07, 2008, 08:05:22 AM
Does she carry sharp implements about her person (not including her tongue)?
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Snoopy on May 07, 2008, 08:12:35 AM
Tell me about a woman who does not have a handbag containing nail file, nail scissors, emery boards, needle and thread and various other items capable of inflicting serious harm to your nether regions.
My first wife could remove yer bollox with a look! scared2:
Title: Re: CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
Post by: Grumpmeister on May 07, 2008, 06:15:55 PM
Getting briefly back on topic again its hardly surprising that CCTV isnt stopping crime. Most of the feral scrotes that are caught on camera want copies of the footage afterwards to put on youtube and the like. Being filmed breaking the law is another badge of honour for them.