[DanBC]

> None of it actually works in any useful way,

I'm generally okay with surveillance, but people should know the capabilities of what's already in place, and your comment seems to trivialise the powers they have.

If it had been a more serious crime (murder, rape) they would have looked for all the other security cameras in the area, and then worked out the route the criminal took to get to the crime scene and to get away from the crime scene.

The images they showed you were not good - but with a million cameras there's going to be variability in image quality and length of data storage.