English towns equipping crossing guards with cameras

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England is already drowning in CCTV cameras, so it looks like Big Brother is starting to get creative in finding ways to deploy more: local councils are now outfitting crossing guards with camera-equipped stop signs. Yeah, crossing guards. With cameras in their stop signs. The cameras in the £890 ($1765) poles are fairly conspicuous, and the hope is that it’ll curb aggressive driving around crossing zones, which resulted in 1,400

incidents last year. There’s no word on how anyone plans to measure the effectiveness of the program, but we’re convinced the crossing guards who get passed by for the poles and end up with the hat-mounted cameras plus being deployed will have a few choice words about things.

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