Camera Crazy UK gets a Flying Camera
The UK is looking more Orwellian. Flying cameras? I wonder if this is a natural progression from having banned firearms and the current consideration of banning knives?
Ian Readhead, deputy chief constable of Hampshire Police, said Britain could face an Orwellian situation with cameras on every street corner. However, senior officers in Merseyside, who are trialling the drone, said they did not believe it was the next phase in creating a Big Brother society.
Assistant chief constable Simon Byrne said: “People clamour for the feeling of safety which cameras give.
“Obviously there is a point of view that has been expressed but our feedback from the public is anything we can do to fight crime is a good thing.
Do you think if they could protect themselves maybe Orwell’s Big Brother wouldn’t be necessary?
May 21st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
obligatory link to a beat cop in the UK who blogs at length about what the police over there are not doing to fight crime.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
augh. your comment software messed up that link. try copying and pasting:
http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/
May 21st, 2007 at 3:49 pm
“Obviously there is a point of view that has been expressed but our feedback from the public is anything we can do to fight crime is a good thing.”
Well, in that case, they should just lock up everyone in the UK. Maybe only let them out for weekly soccer hooliganism and they’d be set.
May 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm
There’s that “feeling of safety” thing again..
May 21st, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Over at Tam’s place is a more practical idea.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
In Great Britain, the inmates are truly running the asylum.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:11 am
We’ve got something similar in America, although its intent and design is slightly different. We’re more big picture sorta people here.
Stupid, stupid waste of money. Of course, the same is the case anytime they’re more focused on having the newest toys rather than actually stopping crime or preventing criminals from committing more crimes.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
Is it just me, or does the flying camera look like a flying Cuisinart? That is cartoon stupidity. You know someone will get hurt.
Apparently they have forgotten what the cops are supposed to do.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:25 am
“People clamour for the feeling of safety which cameras give,” said Assistant Chief Constable Simon Byrne.
It doesn’t matter if people actually _are_ safe, just that the police are, y’know… _doing something_.
Or does this mini chopper have arrest powers we don’t know about?