[mattmanser]

Well, no, because they cost money. Every $1 spent on buying and maintaining useless cameras is $1 not spent on actual policing.

[ryanlol]

>Every $1 spent on buying and maintaining useless cameras is $1 not spent on actual policing.

So, much better than nothing?

[pc86]

If you dream of a Utopian land without police officers, I hear Somalia is gorgeous this time of year.

[ceejayoz]

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen..., Somalia has roughly the same number of police officers per capita as Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and South Korea.

[andrewla]

I was curious about it, so I looked at the underlying data and fixed the numbers on the wikipedia page based on the latest UN data available. Based on that, the number of police per capita is actually considerably lower.

[ceejayoz]

Welp, I've lost the point, but human knowledge has improved. I'll count that as an overall win?

[ryanlol]

Oh, just fewer. There’s probably less LE per capita in Scandinavia than there are in Somalia.