[Wonder Warthog]

"Maybe there is some value in public cameras as a deterrent. Other than that, they seem to be fairly useless. They certainly haven't been useful in stopping a crime once it's started."

They worked SO WELL the PREVENT the London bombing, didn't they??? NOT!!!!

Deterrent value = zero.

[KateatRFM]

Meanwhile, the Toronto Transit Commission have announced to all the local news agencies and over the air to all the ships at sea that their cameras are so few and so low-tech that they would never ever be of any use in capturing terrorists or identifying them. They expect that maybe in 2009 they will have some 1970s technology if they can find a garage sale in a real city somewhere, so if you are planning to blow up a major subway system, better make it the TTC.

Then they went back to agonizing about the upcoming liquor store strike.

[cb]

Gee, more products of the public school system.

The way I see it, the cameras replace what we used to have....an observant and discriminating public which would not tolerate lawbreakers in their midst. When society gets huge with no brakes on behavior we get modern society. This is a small step towards replacing that and conclusions like "deterrent value= 0" don't match the facts presented in the rest of the article.

[dob]

" They worked SO WELL the PREVENT the London bombing, didn't they??? NOT!!!!"

Erm, deterring suicide bombers is well, tough. Most other crimes, on the other hand...