The problem is, CCTV doesn’t prevent committing a crimes.

Many security footage goes to

the network with subtitles “Thief wanted”. But the bike or bag has already stolen. Most of the
robbers have mask or cap and identifying their faces is very difficult.
You were very lucky that you wasn’t badly hurt during attack. Fortune not favors like that to
others. CCTV won’t return their health or, in some cases, life. A few years ago, high-profile case
took place in Poland. I’m talking about Ewa Tylman’s disappearance. Maybe if there was more
police patrol, nothing would happened. Everything we had was just pieces of security footage,
which doesn’t show what really happened.
Another argument against CCTV is snowball effect. Technology development allows for
more effective control of citizens. Imagine that your every move being watched and rated.
Everywhere you go, what you buy, how you behave is tracked and scored to show “how responsible
and trustworthy you are”. It looks like dystopian vision of George Orwell, but it’s really happening.
It’s called the Social Credit System being developed by the Chinese Communist Party. In 2019, 2.56
million citizens of China didn’t purchase airline tickets, due to not enough number of points in the
system.
At this moment this happens on a much smaller scale. Step by step we give our permission
for being controlled by government or large corporations. We share our private data willingly to
Facebook or Google. Do we really want to participate in the system of our enslavement?
I wish to point out that I am not completely against CCTV. It can be very helpful in some
cases, but we must to draw a line between city monitoring and citizen monitoring.