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Major global cities by the number of CCTV cameras per 1,000 people (2025)
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It's very popular to wail about how the UK is a police state. I guess it's because the UK is culturally close to the USA, but different in some ways, so people become most aware of those differences, no matter how big they truly are. And Americans are very bad at comparing their own country to others, so an article about how many cameras there are in the UK or in London does not necessarily get such a comparison; it only decries the situation abroad.
Yeah I had never seen a comparison before. My expectation was just based on the amount of news I see on surveillance in a given area.