Society has a right to defend itself from unacceptable behaviour that harms others. Every time you buy groceries, petrol or liquor, you’re on CCTV, and they have reduced dangerous behaviour, that’s why they are installed. So what’s the fuss? Those involved in repeated wanton public violence have forfeited their right to anonymity. Bring on the cameras before anyone else gets injured, it’s in everyone’s best interest. Big Brother has already been watching you for years.
W Boyle
Durrumbul
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What a stupid comment. CCTVs do not alter peoples behaviour. All someone has to do is wear a mask. Shut the grog shops earlier. Stop turning Byron bay into a ghetto for losers and drunks out to rage at the expense of our safety and amenity so just so a bunch of greedy proprietors pretending to be Byron Naturally can get richer. Byron naturally…what a joke , it is everything but.
Couldnt agree more. Youve got my vote.
Every time you go to any large town or city in Australia you are on lots of CCTV cameras, if your honest and not up to no good, I dont see a problem, the age of privacy is long past