Testing the Effectiveness of the CCTV Cameras in West Palm Beach, Florida

The government is always watching to ensure safety of their country, including everything and everyone in it. Camera surveillance has become an accepted and almost expected addition to modern safety and crime prevention (“Where” para 1). Many people willingly give authorization to companies like Google and Facebook to make billions selling their personal preferences, interests, and data. Canada participates with the United States and other countries in monitoring national and even global communications (“Where” para 2). Many question the usefulness of this kind of surveillance (Hier, Let, and Walby 1).However, surveillance, used non-discriminatorily, is, arguably, the key technology to preventing terrorist plots (Eijkman 1). Government

In 2011, it was recorded that the city of London had the highest number of surveillance cameras per resident with 86.2 cameras for every individual. This caused the city to be named as one of the world’s most visually recorded cities. Most people believed that this would allow crimes to be resolved with ease, therefore leading to a decrease in the cities high crime rate. However according to the Metropolitan Police, for every 1000 cameras, less than one crime was solved per year. This lead to a mass debate as to the real use of the thousands of cameras being utilised around the city of London and the

Now : Surveillance cameras in most buildings (operated by businesses), and in some public streets (operated by police) to prevent crime. Although most of these cameras are operated by private businesses instead

Technology has benefited developed countries in numerous amounts of ways. Most recently, body cameras has seen use in a few U.S. law enforcement agencies across the United States and has improved public relations for those police departments. However, many police officers and lawmakers question the cost and efficiency of such devices and whether the citizens should be placed under constant surveillance when near a law enforcement officer. Whether or not body-worn cameras should be required to be implemented into law enforcement agencies across America is debatable and the decision is dependent on the factors of public safety, cost efficiency, and whether body cameras will serve a practical use or not.

The Public video surveillance is something that has been implemented throughout a large portion of Europe, such as England and Ireland. I incorporate CCTV video surveillance within large segments of public space, not just at designated traffic intersections. I have shown to reduce crime if implemented or perhaps designated to cover small very specifically defined areas of public travel. These areas are often determined through statistical data concerning criminal activity either in general or crime specific. This would in my view be based upon the criminological theory of problem oriented policing as well as the Deterrence

In the article “A Surveillance Society” by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey, the authors explains the growing trends of surveillance cameras, impact it has and how advanced the technology is becoming in using surveillance in our society. Surveillance started with a handful of trouble spots. Now over millions of surveillance cameras and devices, have been installed, all across the country. Since 911, surveillance technology increased and these devices are more socially accepted since the attack. New digital surveillance service is so much more sophisticated than even a few years ago. These high tech devices are becoming more common and people are more comfortable having new technology. Police and Military devices are also impressive.

Electronic surveillance has virtually no limitations today. All over the country and the world, cameras are being installed nearly everywhere. In Honolulu, cameras are installed along Kalakaua avenue "to help catch petty thieves and prevent prostitution" (Salkever 1). In big cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago there are hundreds of seen and unseen cameras everywhere, from street corners, to retail stores, to libraries. Businesses use them to monitor their employees and track merchandise leaving the store.

In what follows I want to examine Magid’s “Evidence Locker 2004” as it highlights three important and interrelated features of contemporary camera surveillance: the fragmented, partial and

Some people may think that security cameras and police cameras invade citizens because cameras are an invasion of people’s lives. However, this claim is invalid because cameras protect people and

Have you ever saw a accident and wondered is there anything that could of prevented this? Automatic traffic lights could help stop vehicular accidents. In our growing society we need more security on the streets. Installing these traffic lights would increase revenue for cities and towns, among allowing police officers to assist in other duties, and stopping repeat offender. Also helping keep people safe from accidents.

Jay Stanley argues that the benefits of surveillance cameras are often exaggerated and their drawbacks being ignored. He points out that individual officers could spy for their personal reason or that government agencies could monitor people because of their political

Possibly the technological feature creating the most controversy is surveillance cameras. What is seemingly there for public safety could also inhibit safety by exposing the public’s private life. Every move made under the hawk-like vision of the camera is observed and judged by someone sitting behind the scenes. Women risk being stalked by sexual predators, and assailants have been known to memorize the schedule of a subject in order to time the perfect attack (Stead). “Bad cops” may gain insight to a personal life that allows for the watcher to blackmail the victim. In recent studies it has been proven that an increase in surveillance cameras does not decrease the crime rate; it

Companies are well aware of the fact that they can utilise a surveillance system, when it comes to deterring criminals. However, most business owners do not see the full potential that covert surveillance systems in particular, have to offer, as well as the advantages it has in comparison to a typical surveillance system which can be easily detected. In this brief article, we'll take a look at the underlying reasons why every business within the UK, should consider the possibility of installing cover surveillance systems within their property.

Furthermore, Misuse of CCTV surveillance is not limited; Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes revealed his office opened 783 formal complaints during 2010, with more than 400 cases related to data security breaches. This is how day by day use of CCTV is increasing and misuse of it is also increasing so it will be better to reduce usage of this CCTV. There are so many issue in more developed countries due to high use of surveillance technology An article title of BBC new on 6 December 2005 “CCTV staff 'spied on naked woman'” Two council workers used CCTV

By 2007, Britain had around five million CCTV cameras, one for each twelve individuals; "by a wide margin the biggest number of cameras on the planet. Norris et al (1998) portray a negative perspective of CCTV, finding that CCTV control rooms were overflowing with sexism and racism, construing that the episodes of ASB that are accounted for might be one-sided and a few agents might will probably report occurrences which include culprits of some ethnic minority aggregates or misconstrue blameless activities or practices of some minority