The CCTV ecosystem is evolving – but it's still a sparse patchwork with limited efficacy in reducing or prosecuting crime.
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US cities were designed and engineered around cars. Now some are working to increase walking and biking, but the shift isn't easy.
As traffic slows down, research is gathering momentum.
Politicians want us to believe closed circuit TV makes us safer. But the main beneficiaries are private firms handed lucrative tax-payer contracts.
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of Stirling
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Researcher, Western Sydney University
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Reader/Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast
