I’ve been watching a lot of South Korean crime dramas lately and it seems like any time there’s a development in a case in any of these shows, the first thing they do is consult CCTV footage. I know the effectiveness of CCTV footage in these shows is exaggerated for dramatic effect, but South Korea \*does\* have a significantly lower crime rate, and I noticed that a lot of surveillance cameras are on the corners of stores or in places that get a lot of foot traffic. I tried googling the answer myself, but almost everything I found was really sarcastic about how CCTVs are useless in places like the UK, which doesn’t answer the question, or people saying how privacy is a basic human right so of course America wouldn’t have surveillance cameras. But the government has been spying on us for decades, anyway, and the Bush administration only made it worse, so I don’t understand why CCTVs seem to be a bridge too far compared to how we’re constantly being monitored on our personal devices, anyway.
I don’t want anyone arguing in the comments about that last sentence, because it’s literally true.
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I’ve literally never worked anywhere that did not have CCTV, and back in school 15 years ago all the way back to elementary school we had cameras. You could walk into the office and the monitor would be there cycling through the different views.
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