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Fighting Crime with Logo T-shirts
Thursday 08th of May 2008 02:29:44 AM
Does it matter what’s on your T-shirt? Well, sure it does. You know that your friends, colleagues and even perfect strangers are watching what you wear. But, did you know that CCTV cameras are also tracking your T-shirt logos? The UK spends more money on CCTV cameras than any other European nation. The purpose of these cameras is to discourage crime and terrorism and to find perpetrators who break the law. However, often criminals’ faces are obscured with hoodie sweatshirts or a bad camera angle.
In order to make the cameras more effective in tracking criminals, the BBC reports that police are proposing a new software program that will automatically search CCTV footage for distinctive clothing such as T-shirt logos.
Once the software identifies the logo on the T-shirt it can then scan footage from other CCTV cameras to track the path of the alleged fugitive and get other camera shots of the alleged fugitive. As the criminal moves away from the crime season he or she may take off his or her hooded sweatshirt or face mask and give another CCTV camera a good like at his or her face.
The police say that although many criminals hide their faces when breaking the law, the often wear common street clothes including outfits with logos when committing crimes. Many criminals also tend to wear the same clothes every time they commit a crime. So, the use of logo based software to track criminal activity may be very useful.
Many people have strong opinions on the use of CCTV cameras on the streets of the UK. However, the reality is that the cameras are there, they are being used and they are expensive. So long as they are being used, police should make the most of them and if analyzing logo based T-shirts and other clothing is helpful, then it might just prevent another crime from being committed.
(c) Chris Cockram, www.sxc.hu
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