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2013-12-27 00:36:35.789851+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Video surveillance of downtown Houston to expand:

Officials say data is not kept to determine if the cameras are driving down crime.

How the fuck do you spend $18M without collecting data to see if it's effective? How the fuck does the federal government end up funding this sort of thing without demanding that such data be kept?

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#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-27 22:16:13.917836+01 by: Larry Burton

Because the cameras were never installed to drive down crime.

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