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Revelation34 posted...

Cameras are clearly useless.

Honestly, they kind of are. You're generally lucky to get a definitive identification from most security cameras, especially in a more chaotic situation where people are moving around a lot. They do absolutely nothing during the incident, so they can't be used to help identify and remove problem individuals from the situation, so you're limited to hoping a camera caught a clear image and then also you can manage to match that image to a person (who often isn't even local, in the case of sporting events), which usually relies on somebody that knows them turning them in.

Cameras exist mostly as deterrents, as much as people like to think they guarantee the criminal would be caught. For most petty crimes, it's not worth police's time to seriously investigate any footage they get.