Its not such a bad idea to make security cameras publicly viewable (although allowing the public to conrtol them is another matter) for example it essentially gives you a whole world full of witnesses to whatever events may happen..
Lets say your local friendly 'protection' dude wanders in to your shop one day asking for money 'or else'.. you can either..
a) inform him that his every move is being watched by a million slashdotters..
b) pull your gun out from under the counter and blow his brains out - then tell the police there's plenty of witnesses to interview..;)
About fifteen years ago, there was a jeweler in West LA, Lance Thomas [findarticles.com] who did go in for the "blow away the robbers" approach. He was a good shot, with a watch repair store in a bad neighborhood. Once or twice a year, someone would try to hold up his store. He'd blow them away, then play back the tape for the cops. Five kills in four gunfights over three years. Ruled "justifiable homicide" every time.
There was grumbling from the NAACP over this.
He's still around, repairing watches.
He now sells over
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Good reason to make security cams public.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Lets say your local friendly 'protection' dude wanders in to your shop one day asking for money 'or else'.. you can either..
a) inform him that his every move is being watched by a million slashdotters..
b) pull your gun out from under the counter and blow his brains out - then tell the police there's plenty of witnesses to interview.. ;)
Re:Good reason to make security cams public.. (Score:2)
b) pull your gun out from under the counter and blow his brains out - then tell the police there's plenty of witnesses to interview..
Or you can just record and keep a day's worth of footage stored....
Re:Good reason to make security cams public.. (Score:2)
There was grumbling from the NAACP over this.
He's still around, repairing watches. He now sells over