From: Sally Pitts (sally2887@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 10:44:56 MDT
>From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: surveillance helps the innocent. was: Two trials for the same
>crime?
>Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:47:40 -0400
>
>Just a comment here:
>
>From a security perspective, cameras are a "monitor" device, not a
>"prevention" device. They don't prevent any crimes. They only show a
>crime after it is in progress. To turn it into a "detection" device, it
>would need full-time monitoring, alarm systems to a response team, and
>people stationed close enough to intercede before the quick event was over.
> Having a videotape of a masked gunman walking away with money may not be
>helpful after the fact.
>It is not clear to me that such devices would have any provable effect on
>"prevention".
>
If the video feed is hooked up to motion detection/human movement
recognition software package (which are freely available in open source), an
alarm can sound and you can wake up, grab your gun, and walk out into the
parking lot and blow away the greasy teenager who is stealing your
stereo--voila, crime prevented!
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