Re: e-Scooters
Tempted as I am to glibly ask "what has this got to do with e-bikes", I'll refrain
I know for a fact that some children behave better due to the presence of CCTV, partly because they've told me and partly because previous areas which later had cameras pointing at them had a significant fall in the number of miscreant behavior patterns which were not repeated elsewhere largely due to no such areas being available to them.
I also suspect that this is the case in the wider public areas, somewhat supported by the use of speed cameras, or are you suggesting that people don't check and amend their speed when they see a camera coming up? Are you also suggesting that homes with CCTV security systems are burgled in equal proportion to those that don't?
What precise liberties are removed from the innocent by the existence of surveillance systems? And are these any different from having a large police presence?
Sure, neither a well funded police service nor a surveillance system will stop all criminals. But both do and will help, otherwise what's the point of either?
From what you say, you don't think that any surveillance works to reduce or prevent crime? Is it not possible that part of the reason our prisons are full is because surveillance has helped apprehend criminals?
As for your point about police dunking biscuits watching monitors, this point has been clarified earlier by swimmy.
Finally, with reference to phones and computers being kept private...if this were to be the norm, then the likes of Gary Glitter would still be walking the streets and singing his awful songs. There was a recent TV series in which serial paedophiles were successfully hunted down (by the screen watching police officers) due to their computer activities. They, most likely, would never have been caught otherwise. That alone seems sufficient to me.