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Safety – or profit? The booming business of CCTV and Safer Streets

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imageThe link between CCTV and safety is weak; the link with commerce is stronger.Flickr/Ashley/Jakub Geltner, Sculpture by the Sea, 'Nest '06', CC BY

Closed circuit street cameras have been sold to the community as a way of making us safer, reducing crime and discouraging anti-social behaviour. But research into the Federal Government’s $50...

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