A National Police Agency official, suggesting that one reason the number of criminal cases confirmed by police in the first half of this year marked the 17th consecutive year of decline is because of the widespread installation of security cameras around Japan.
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Security cameras are an indispensable tool. They can have a psychological influence on potential criminals, giving them a moment of hesitation, which is often enough to prevent the crime.
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InspectorGadget
Maybe. An aging population and the decline of the Yakuza/Bosozoku may also have a part to play in this. This is also 'reported' crime. It may be that people just simply can t be bothered reporting low level crime.
Wakarimasen
not so much. but they are invaluable for tracing criminals caught on camera.
pacificwest
And anyone else the government feels fit to track and follow, like political activists.
Actually, what the science they are referring to states is that invasive state surveillance cameras have a psychological influence on everyone causing us to modify our behaviour.
I don't know where Japan is going with this but in many nations their installation has led to severe cut backs in policing after precisely such PR campaigns.
theFu
Crazy and dumb people do illegal things all the time, regardless of surveillance equipment.
A good economy tracks to lower crime rates too.
pacificwest
How is facial recognition and tracking software development and introduction getting on in Japan?
That's what the ultimate goal of all this stuff appears to be about.
They are selling under the guise of catching criminals (which it rarely does) but really it's just about total surveillance and data collection.