It’s very popular to wail about how the UK is a police state. I guess it’s because the UK is culturally close to the USA, but different in some ways, so people become most aware of those differences, no matter how big they truly are. And Americans are very bad at comparing their own country to others, so an article about how many cameras there are in the UK or in London does not necessarily get such a comparison; it only decries the situation abroad.
I visited London and England once at the beginning of the century and I was appalled by the sheer number of cameras. I took many pictures of the CCTVs and the warnings. I had dreamed of living there or settling there for some time but I discarded the idea and moved elsewhere
Huh I would have guessed London would be far higher than LA.
It’s very popular to wail about how the UK is a police state. I guess it’s because the UK is culturally close to the USA, but different in some ways, so people become most aware of those differences, no matter how big they truly are. And Americans are very bad at comparing their own country to others, so an article about how many cameras there are in the UK or in London does not necessarily get such a comparison; it only decries the situation abroad.
Yeah I had never seen a comparison before. My expectation was just based on the amount of news I see on surveillance in a given area.
I visited London and England once at the beginning of the century and I was appalled by the sheer number of cameras. I took many pictures of the CCTVs and the warnings. I had dreamed of living there or settling there for some time but I discarded the idea and moved elsewhere