[Symbiote]

I don't like these cameras, but it's worth noting they have had some use:

> The Met arrested 587 people in 2024 with the assistance of the live facial recognition cameras of which 424 were charged with offences.

Of those arrested, 58 were registered sex offenders in serious breach of their conditions and 38 have been charged.

[dghlsakjg]

How many people were tracked how many times to achieve that result?

How many of those arrests were possible ONLY by the use of these cameras?

The denominator very much matters here.

[Symbiote]

Absolutely, so that needs to be the discussion — a claim that the cameras achieve nothing isn't correct and would be ignored by politicians etc.