Yeah. We are the most watched nation in Europe.
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A Polish immigrant hamburger salesman might complain — as if! — or someone's grandma would tell the offending group of hoodlums to knock it off, if she dared.
But these days, Big Brother does the job.
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If a grandma dared to tackle a group of youngsters in this way she could quite possibly be beaten to death by said group. It's happened a few times now, that an adult has tried to tell a gang of kids to stop being destructive/noisy and they've turned on him like a pack of wild things. Police advice now is,do not attempt to intervene with a group of teenagers. Is it any wonder many people feel safer with cameras around?
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"Local communities are pushing very powerfully for closed-circuit television. What they say is, I may live in this little village that has no history of violent crime, but I'll feel safer if I've got CCTV," said Ian Readhead, deputy chief constable of the Hampshire police
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This is a very important point, and one I tried making to rk on the issue of cctv and the 'Big Brother' effect. The concept of the Big Brother state, in Orwell's novel, is top-down. Much of the surveillance in my country is there because the people have asked for it, in many cases actively campaigning to persuade councils and police forces to install more. This is far from top-down. This is what happens when a democratic government and its agencies respond to the urgings of the populace.