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In recent years, CCTV cameras are used in a variety of different situations in UK. Similarly, there are so many CCTV cameras everywhere in japan such as the entrance of mansions, in taxi es, stores, and in the elevators. In this piece of writing, I'll discuss the issue.

Some people don't like to be recorded and others don't care much about this. However, more or less, CCTV cameras are put in order to save us. They are used to identify the criminals and prevent violence and stop arguments. For example, when someone had a shoplifting in a convenience store, the shopkeeper soon identified who did it. In that case CCTV is a helpful tool to prevent second shoplifting. Though 99 percent of customers in convenience store don't do such a thing , yet for shipowners, even one shoplifting is a unmissable lost. Furthermore, like that shops have CCTV cameras, some schools adopt recording. I think it IS necessary especially in universities. That's because we don't want to be exposed to fear that a stranger kill or injure us. Now few universities have CCTV cameras in their buildings, however, Universities is to be strictly restricted its entry because anyone even mad people can enter the buildings. Actually, in Korakuen campus of Chuou Univ, a professor was killed by someone. Police couldn't identified the criminal and we have a fear that it might happen in our university. If Chuou Univ. had had cameras the ciminals could have been arrested.

Ofcource there're demerits of recording people because it might invade people's privacy. People are watched all the time with CCTV cameras. Camera checkers know who came to the specific place and what they did. I wonder what would happen if individual secrets recorded with CCTV cameras leak out. Sometimes recording works bad.


However, people are sometimes released with certainly of cameras. For instance, if you're suspected that you touched in elevator, you can prove not to be true because the movie of the CCTV cameras can be a definitive evidence of your innocence. Actually, there's a case that the suspect proved his innocence in 2006. According to paper of Mainichi, a japanese news paper a man was suspected as a criminal who injured police, but camere in conveniences store showed his coming in the time when police was hit. When you do the correct thing, CCTV is in favor of us.


In conclusion, CCTV has both positive effects and negative points, but when I consider which we take safety or privacy, I think safety is more important because safety is essential to live. As we know, cameras cannot necessarily record all things which happens in the past and present, we need to be recorded to prevent crimes, prove our innocence and be in safe.