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Re:London’s Surveillance Fails - Only 1 Crime Solved per 100... by TomOfTTB on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @02:00AM (#799556)
Apparently Crime in London is at a ten year low: http://urdunews.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/london-crime-rate-d...

But the police don't seem to be giving CCTV credit for that: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1

So I think it's one of those "draw your own conclusion" situations.

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Re:London’s Surveillance Fails - Only 1 Crime Solved per 100... by nazgulnarsil on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @06:11AM (#799815)
compared to other major world cities it is still astonishingly high though.
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