Why do CCTV cameras always have extremely poor resolution?

Question

I can’t think of a reason why other than the cost but surely it’s worth the potential to solve more crime

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Answer 1

Modern ones are pretty good but usually it’s a cost benefit decision – most times just the presence of these cameras is enough to deter crime. So it doesn’t pay to have really high quality cameras most of the time. Also, there’s the issue of storage. Lower resolution means more storage, and business and public places usually want days/weeks/months of storage so they can go back and look for patterns of behavior, etc. otherwise they’d have to keep deleting their footage to keep recording.