Walu, Your response reminds me of a subject of interest.. whether crime and poverty are really related or is it genetic? I have always wondered why crime in India is not proposal to poverty there ;)) and why high rate among blacks in US? L John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: Very interesting observations...particularly the one on London having the highest 'CCTVs per Citizen' and yet the reduction on petty crime remained minimal. I guess the moral of the story is that these problems are systemic and cannot be resolved within the narrow sense of technology i.e. throwing technology at crime may not necessarily bring down the crime statistics. But NOT having the technology on the other hand does drive up the crime statistics. So like all things in life - the solution is fuzzy and must be existing somewhere in between. Policy frameworks that are holistic or cross-cutting in nature could be the starting point. walu. --- On Wed, 6/11/08, aki wrote:
From: aki Subject: Re: [kictanet] Another lost side-mirror To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 9:39 AM Just to add a comment. The technology will belong in 2 categories :
- Webcams/low resolution ( low costs ) : Good for general cctv i.e simple views such as traffic movements at roundabouts, highways etc. Can produce a very basic monitoring system and simple results.
- High Resolution ( high costs ) : This can allow the agencies to even read vehicle number plates, capture images of criminal elements etc. Produces meaningful results. Incase of the hilton issue, this technology would have provided monitoring but also capture images to identify the criminal elements.
There can a hybrid system based on the two above. Hopefully some day soon there will be a national security policy to push for the implementation of the correct technology and the training of the security agencies that will help reduce crime.
With Rgds.
Aki.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Michuki Mwangi
wrote:
aki wrote:
I guess there would be need for some sort of a
to push for the technology implementation over a
Hopefully policy makers will see the urgency and
security policy and budgets period of a few years. push forward plans to
make it more safer for all.
Fortunately, technically its not as complicated, we are not inventing the wheel. There's lots of places to learn from and more less expensive ways to deploy.
Michuki.
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