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acrowandababy t1_j4hshkf wrote

950,000 cameras in London bitches. No, really.

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Pandatotheface t1_j4i3d00 wrote

Manhattan is 27x smaller than London though because London is a massive sprawling mess compared to Manhattan which is just the city centre, so to the same scale it would have 400,000, but then you're comparing the density of Manhattan to the whole of London which isn't exactly a fair comparison either.

Misread the title and forgot to include the other two areas, total area makes London 4.4x larger, so 66,000 cameras to London's 950,000 comparative to area. So yeah, pretty fucked.

Another interesting fact I picked up while I was googling though was that there are 15,000 cameras just in the London underground.

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protossaccount t1_j4jo674 wrote

I believe many of them do not work, I lived in London ages ago though, so maybe they are better.

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[deleted] t1_j4i5v7b wrote

Didnt realize Brooklyn and the Bronx were in Manhattan… /s

The Bronx is gigantic and Brooklyn isnt exactly small either

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kneeonball t1_j4ic4tv wrote

Your comment makes it sound like Brooklyn is smaller than The Bronx. The Bronx is 42.47 square miles and Brooklyn is 69.5 square miles. For reference, Manhattan is 22.82.

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anotherNarom t1_j4iagqw wrote

Apples and Oranges.

You've compared 15,000 NYPD cameras with the combined total of every man and his dog, every shop, every home owner camera in London.

The web page you got the 950,000 from says the Metropolitan Police only has 3,000 CCTV cameras which is a fairer comparison to NYPD.

Cite: https://clarionuk.com/resources/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-in-london/#:~:text=Research%20by%20Clarion%20Security%20Systems,(2022)

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cannibal_man t1_j4ipiuu wrote

> 950,000 cameras in London bitches. No, really.

Sounds like a society which really doesn't trust itself.

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[deleted] t1_j4lfxvv wrote

Modern society doesn’t. That’s obvious now. We are heading towards a massive global conflict

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