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More and more measures to improve the security in large urban areas have been introduced in many countries because of the increased crime. Do the benefits of these measure outweigh the drawbacks?

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Recently, in some countries, an increasing number of offenders is posing a threat to
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society.
Hence
, more and more
security
cameras
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and surveilance
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surveilance equipments
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surveillance equipment
are prevail
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application
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 in large urban areas to protect innocent
people
.
This
 arrangement, despite seemingly disadvantageous in certain aspects, actually possesses merits that, in my opinion, would overshadow the drawbacks. Regarding the drawbacks of using
security
cameras
 to deter crime, some
people
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 that the police
has
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 invaded their own privacy
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 and freedom. These days, the extensive of using special
surveilance
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surveillance
equipments
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 is hardly escapable, to the point that
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people
 may find themselves surrounded by those every
walking
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 moment. It does not matter where they are, they
still
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 being watched for 24 hours. Whether they are on the street, in the supermarket, or on
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 way home, images of their faces and their movement will be recorded and sent to the
security
 organisations, ready to be analysed if necessary. Many
people
belive
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 their
right
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rights
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, their privacy
are
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 not
be
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respected, and
this
 action would be a violation of privacy. In spite of the above arguments, I’m inclined to think the pros outweigh the cons. First and foremost, the most overwhelming advantage is that police can easily track the criminals once an individual
commit
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 an offence. Those devices can deter young offenders or potential criminals from breaking the laws, because they know that themselves being under the
surveilance
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surveillance
 of cutting-edge devices.
Furthermore
, it would greatly contribute to reducing terrorist attacks, thanks to the data and images from these
cameras
, which are used to detect unusual activities of any individual in public places. The installation of more video
cameras
 in urban areas is
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, and unobtrusive,
while
 the
goverment
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government
do
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 not have to allocate too much money
on
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 the police forces. More importantly,
this
 application will protect
the
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society from any threat and provide a sense of safety and
security
 to the
people
. In a nutshell, the use of
surveilance
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surveillance
cameras
 as crime
detterance
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deterrence
utterance
 is being increased in many big cities around the world. I hold the view that
this
 application
bring
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 more merits than drawbacks, albeit
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 of some
people
.
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