However, they also allow very effective privacy violations of course.
Because of this there's no perfect outcome (and opinions across the board).
I know proposing it is political suicide there, but when I see what BLM have accomplished in awareness I did think some spontaneous movement like that would happen too in the gun debate, after the xx'th senseless mass shooting.
Also, the other obvious thing (also starting to bite Europe in the backside in all fairness), is the huge income equality leading to crime life.
"They hailed the cameras as a game-changer, and said the images helped to identify the suspected gunman who shot three employees, killing one, last year at an Otay Mesa Church’s Chicken"
Data from the UK disagrees with this hypothesis.
They found that CCTV camera usage had no correlation with crime reduction.