[guitarbill]

> and in reality the police mostly can't be bothered to try and access the recordings

obviously this is the case if you are a normal citizen. imagine how fast they'd access the recordings if a police officer was hurt, or to identify protesters, etc

[dgroshev]

There are probably hundreds to thousands of protesters protesting for different causes in London alone every weekend. CCTV tracking of protesters is just not happening, it's absolutely unrealistic. Besides, you don't need street CCTV for that, local police van-based CCTV on mass gatherings is already a thing all over the globe.

Stuff like Ring (centralised, pervasive, and already cooperating with authorities) is way more sus than CCTV on British streets.