Warning: Video Surveillance in Use

Not very effective in deterring crime.

Warning: Video Surveillance in Use

 

By Elton Camp

 

Those fuzzy, unfocused videos of crime

To identify robbers aren’t worth a dime

 

Their low quality images are the excuse

Why, to catch crooks, they’re of little use

 

They show vague shapes moving about

That they have much value I surely doubt

 

The images they give are poor, not even fair

All I can tell is that it’s a man, not a bear

 

Far better technology most surely does exist

But it’s something high risk stores did miss

 

Therefore, video camera use at the corner store

Won’t stop any robber coming back for more

 

So little stores might as well take the sign down

It makes a crook laugh when he comes around

 

And so a mask he doesn’t even both to wear

Although he knows that the camera is there