In an op-ed for Bloomberg, Leonid Bershidsky explains why the use of surveillance cameras to identify a pair of Russian military intelligence agents who attempted to assassinate former Col. Sergei Skripal highlights flaws when using the technology to identify culprits. While the U.K. was eventually able to identify the suspects, the process took months as law enforcement agencies pored over massive amounts of footage. “If everyone is tracked, no one is, so the cameras can only perform their function so late after the fact that even those criminals who are identified are less likely to be apprehended,” Bershidsky writes.
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