See LEGAL for my opinions.

I agree with all you said, although I believe that CCTV is overrated. It merely observes, as it did the London bombers, and cannot prevent crime. A Bobby on the beat would be more effective.

Ah Cat my point about CCTV is that, if some of the 4 million wasted on me had been used to fit double the quantity of CCTC cameras... 1) the police would probably have a clear picture of car number plates in several unsolved murders and 2) potential murderers/criminals would have been less willing to commit a crime knowing the chances of discovery were greater.

Now I may be wrong about that but observation is, I think, both a deterrent and a useful tool in solving crime.

It's why I had

It does bother me that the "Daily Mailers" and Co. react so viciously to the notion of rehabilitation. They seem to have a rather sadistic need for punishment that I don't really understand.

Locking people up and doing nothing constructive at all is insane. Once released they are where back to they once were but worse off.

I don't want to inflict petty punishments on people I wan them to stop criminal behaviour - in that regard prison does, at best, too little.

Government at the behest of Tabloid mentality introduce foolishness such as mandatory life sentence for murder when, as pointed about above, murder is not a single thing that's always the same. Most murderers are quite ordinary people, the asocial nutter is rare.

Wal-Mart installed Millions of dollars on cctv but do they pay anyone to to monitor the cameras?