Originally Posted by
harrybarracuda
Originally Posted by
ENT
True. Criminals always look for the easy way.
Make it hard for them and they tend to get desperate and slip up.
So how do you make it hard for someone to get in a car and drive it into a crowd of people, especially when their mentality then sees them rushing armed police?
You can't.
Either you give the authorities extremely invasive surveillance powers, or you accept that the risk of being killed by a terrorist whackjob is as significant as it is of being killed by a drunk driver, a violent robber or even a simple fall.
Increased surveillance of public areas works well without becoming intrusive or invasive.
Do you know how many cameras have recorded your innocent wanders around town or in the office, or apartment building? Many.
I was astounded, more than 10 years ago, when I counted more than 20 CCTV cameras mounted on the outside of buildings along a one mile walk from Uni to the city centre, then there were another half dozen or so walking across campus plus most of the shops along my walk had CCTV inside to keep an eye out for potential shoplifters.
Intrusive surveillance is already in place, has been for years. Getting the legal permits necessary to instigate a close watch on someone is another matter, as it's often blocked by legislation surrounding consideration of an individual's claims of erroneously presumed "human rights" to do what he/she likes in privacy.
I rigged a dummy CCTV unit (an old, non-functioning unit, not connected) in plain sight, visible through the sliding glass doors of my daughter's ground floor apartment (in a gated community) in Singapore a few years ago. Worked a treat. No more door rattling at night.
It's not too difficult a job to rig an isolating switch in a car. Home made jobs work best, a disconnected wire's the simplest.