re: #132 ggt

The London police have a very impressive CCTV system that makes the system currently in place in NYC seem to be child’s play. It would appear that they’ve got the ability to track movements from where the rioting occurred back to where these rioters were living. They’re also getting tips from people who were affected by the rioting and helping to make arrests that way as well.

In other words the CCTV isn’t preventing crime, but it’s helping to bring about arrests of those involved in the rioting (which has apparently spread from London to several other cities while the massive police presence in London helped calm things significantly last night).