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[From Study Questions Whether Cameras Cut Crime - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com]

David Greenberg and Jeffrey Roush have published a study on the effectiveness of cameras in a privately owned apartment complex.   They found:

CTV may be moderately effective in preventing minor crimes or in diverting them to distant areas. Its effects on more serious crime could not be gauged precisely from this research because there was so little of it prior to the introduction of electronic monitoring.

This is another study that shows cameras are at best lukewarm for reducing crime. However, as the post on DC noted, everyday citizens don’t believe this. I believe surveillance will continue growing rapidly in the US despite the lack of support for a connection between cameras and crime.

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