crime and detection

[Tony the Duk]

if thermal heat imaging can be used so successfully when tracking a criminals whereabouts is it not possible to install thermal heat imaging satellites to monitor everyones movements. Thus when a crime has beem committed the perpertrator can be traced to his or her home address.

[RATTER15]

That may take more than a few people to monitor everybody and as you can not identify people from the image I don't think it would really be realistic.

[Tony the Duk]

sorry . the gist of my idea was not to monitor everyone on the planet at any given moment but too log a crime happening and go back over the recording in order to identify the culprit

[Grunty]

I think Ratter is right. This would take an enormous amount of resources. How many cameras and recorders would it take to cover every street in the UK? When the suspect passed from one camera to another, where would be the continuity to prove that the next camera was following the same person? Many crimes are committed over the weekend and are not discovered until the business opens on Monday. The recordings would take longer than that to view. They cannot be sped up because of the small time interval concerned, and often have to be rewound to check something.

[HJT40]

I think you may find this is an infringement of your human rights, otherwise they may as well just collect everyones DNA, which they are also not allowed to do.