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[00:03:21] The paradox that blows the mind of any sane person,
[00:03:24] the Internet is literally flooded with such videos.
[00:03:28] People break into stores.
[00:03:43] most likely nothing will happen, it would seem, here is the proof, the elements of a crime, but, for example, in California, theft
[00:03:46] up to $950
[00:03:49] is not a crime in the usual sense. In
[00:03:52] 2014, the infamous law
[00:03:56] Proposition 47 was passed there, theft can...
[00:04:00] be considered just a misdemeanor, thieves
[00:04:02] play by these rules, they rob in groups, but
[00:04:05] each carries goods worth approximately up to $950.
[00:04:09] долларов.
[00:04:17] Since 2014, the number of shoplifting incidents in
[00:04:20] California has grown by more than a third, and the number
[00:04:24] of arrests for them has fallen by more than half,
[00:04:28] the logic is ironclad. The law allows stealing for
[00:04:32] a certain amount, it varies from state to state, and
[00:04:35] law-abiding citizens and businessmen can only
[00:04:38] film all this on their phones and post it on
[00:04:42] social networks, hoping that public
[00:04:44] outrage will someday force politicians
[00:04:47] to come to their senses, the wildest thing is that all this is perfectly
[00:04:51] officially recorded. In the US, the
[00:04:53] video surveillance system is developed no worse than anywhere else,
[00:04:57] cameras are on every corner. But what
[00:05:01] effect do they have if for a criminal it means nothing, and the US is not
[00:05:04] the only place in the West where public safety
[00:05:08] is a crucial point of modernity.
[00:05:43] system, why is this camera system needed? Here is a specific person, he needs
[00:05:46] to be caught, not a specific crime that needs
[00:05:49] to be solved, but you understand that a specific person who needs to be caught is
[00:05:53] primarily a political, most likely, persona, who
[00:05:56] is being watched, and who can then be accused
[00:05:59] of participating in some crime and so on. In the West, this whole
[00:06:03] system of video cameras and video surveillance
[00:06:07] is created in order to catch
[00:06:10] dissidents. January
[00:06:13] 2023, a frosty morning in Minsk, on
[00:06:16] Pritytskogo street, a young man enters a pawnshop,
[00:06:19] attacks a female seller with a knife, he
[00:06:23] stabs her with the blade, beats her, takes
[00:06:26] the money. Already a couple of hours later, the 22-year-old
[00:06:30] robber in handcuffs is taken to the station.
[00:06:33] A branched system of video cameras allows
[00:06:37] to quickly identify the criminal. It provides an opportunity to
[00:06:41] track and find not only dangerous robbers.
[00:07:12] thousands of administrative violations. In the near
[00:07:15] future, recording of violations of maneuvering rules, failure to yield
[00:07:18] to pedestrians, will be ensured, in the future, movement in public
[00:07:21] transport lanes, overtaking rules,
[00:07:25] driving without a seatbelt and a number of other
[00:07:28] violations. Brussels is the political heart of the European
[00:07:31] Union, Eurocommissioners meet here, pass
[00:07:34] laws, talk about human rights and democracy, and
[00:07:38] at night there are shootings, and so often that local
[00:07:41] residents... have already ceased to be surprised, on average
[00:07:45] two shootouts a week, here's an example,
[00:07:48] on the evening of August 24, 2026, on The
[00:07:52] Bank Square in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, an unknown person opens
[00:07:55] fire from an automatic weapon, bullets fly towards
[00:07:59] the pizzeria, visitors fall to the floor, hide under
[00:08:02] tables, on the square there are 18 bullet holes from
[00:08:06] large-caliber bullets. In one of the districts, a police
[00:08:10] station was shelled, security. At
[00:08:13] the moment, in the European Union, this is problem number
[00:08:16] one, in the opinion, in public opinion, this
[00:08:20] problem is even higher than the economic
[00:08:23] problem or the social problem, this is what
[00:08:26] worries citizens the most, at
[00:08:30] the moment, the feeling of lack
[00:08:33] of security is present in
[00:08:36] principle in every home, especially it is noticeable in
[00:08:39] large European cities,
[00:09:13] but 101 shootings a year for a city with a million inhabitants
[00:09:17] is an alarming signal. What is behind this
[00:09:20] bedlam. Brussels is a key hub for drug distribution across
[00:09:24] Europe. Cocaine goes through the port of Antwerp and
[00:09:27] then to the capital. Organized networks are fighting for the market,
[00:09:31] Moroccan, Albanian, North African
[00:09:34] groups. In Paris, or even in France in general, on any electric train,
[00:09:38] if you go and buy not business class special train. to relieve
[00:09:55] themselves right in
[00:09:56] the carriage
[00:10:00] practically before your eyes, both a man and a woman, to
[00:10:03] what depths, to what godlessness, to what dehumanization
[00:10:06] France has fallen under
[00:10:09] Macron, because I remember, I myself traveled, I... traveled by
[00:10:13] train from Brussels to Strasbourg in France, to the plenary session
[00:10:17] of the European Parliament, large ones, I just liked it. I remember that even
[00:10:20] 10-12 years ago it was impossible. Minsk
[00:10:24] August 21, 2026 on Independence Avenue, a
[00:10:28] man in a medical mask enters a jewelry store, approaches
[00:10:31] the far display cases, where the most expensive diamond
[00:10:35] jewelry is, pulls out an item resembling a pistol,
[00:10:38] takes jewelry worth more than 400 thousand
[00:10:42] Belarusian rubles, everything happens in less than
[00:10:45] a minute, the sellers manage to press the alarm
[00:10:48] button, but the robber escaped. As soon as
[00:10:51] the signal arrives at the Minsk City Department of Internal Affairs, mechanisms are launched.
[00:11:34] Our arsenal includes systems for facial recognition and license
[00:11:38] plates, they help to quickly identify
[00:11:41] suspects who have left the scene of the incident or people who
[00:11:44] could have been witnesses to the crime. Modern
[00:11:47] technologies are an important tool for crime prevention.
[00:11:51] London is the city with the densest network of video cameras in Europe.
[00:11:55] There are more than 900 thousand surveillance cameras,
[00:11:58] it would seem that crimes on the streets are doomed
[00:12:02] to swift punishment from law enforcement, but in
[00:12:05] 2025, the clearance rate for thefts in London
[00:12:09] was an average of a pathetic 14%.
[00:12:12] Detective Peter Blakesley from Scotland Yard says
[00:12:16] directly: theft is effectively
[00:12:18] decriminalized, I can quit my job and become
[00:12:21] a robber, the chance of being caught is minimal.
[00:12:25] Why? Here, for example, a figure: last year, 400 cases
[00:12:28] were closed with the wording "not in the public interest", and
[00:12:32] the number of police officers is decreasing. To understand, across
[00:12:35] London, for 24/7 operations, only two
[00:12:38] police stations remained.
[00:12:41] This is for a city with a population of almost 9 million people.
[00:12:45] Welcome to the capital of democracy, where a camera is
[00:12:49] just a piece of metal on a pole. Approximately 7100
[00:12:52] mobile phones are stolen annually, and yet...
[00:13:36] how to take the situation under control, they are afraid of serious, well,
[00:13:40] not riots, of course, but burning cars, and so on
[00:13:43] and so forth, all this they are afraid
[00:13:46] to cause, I think that
[00:13:49] if for the most part what happens, well,
[00:13:52] in the UK or France.
[00:13:55] is recorded on cameras and recorded there as
[00:13:58] it is not French and not
[00:14:00] British, but
[00:14:03] they just try to sweep it under the rug, because
[00:14:07] the arrest of these people
[00:14:10] will certainly trigger
[00:14:13] a reaction
[00:14:17] from the diaspora. The Minsk bicycle thief was found by
[00:14:21] cameras, although sometimes precious time is lost here.
[00:14:25] The loss may not be detected immediately. The man turned out to be
[00:14:29] not just a serial thief, who stole at least nine
[00:14:32] bicycles in three districts of the capital. He
[00:14:36] gave the stolen goods to his children or sold them cheaply
[00:14:39] to someone. He sincerely believed that he would not
[00:14:42] be found. This is your whole philosophy: in London,
[00:14:46] there are 9000 cameras, and the clearance rate for thefts is
[00:14:49] 14%. In Belarus, 60
[00:14:52] thousand eyes of the system that... never
[00:14:55] sleeps. A mysterious incident at Kamennaya Gorka
[00:14:59] metro station, the video surveillance system solved it in
[00:15:02] minutes, footage showed how a young guy
[00:15:05] repeatedly hit a man with force, and then threw him down the
[00:15:09] stairs, he lost consciousness, law enforcement
[00:15:13] tracked the escape route from one camera to another in real
[00:15:16] time, at the station, when the attacker was buying
[00:15:20] a ticket, a patrol was already running to him. Today, the Minsk police
[00:15:23] are capable of identifying and suppressing offenses in
[00:15:27] public places in the shortest possible time. Taking into account the criminogenic situation, patrolling
[00:15:31] routes have been determined, including the involvement of car patrols. Annually,
[00:15:34] more and more surveillance cameras are connected to the republican public
[00:15:38] security monitoring system, including those installed on houses in
[00:15:41] entrances. I repeat, the crime rate
[00:15:44] is steadily decreasing, the measures taken allow to ensure
[00:15:48] the safety of citizens in the city at any time of the day. First
[00:15:51] of all, thanks to the combination of modern technologies and
[00:15:55] preventive work. The same
[00:15:57] performances in labor collectives, social advertisements, visits
[00:16:01] to citizens at home, in 24/7 patrolling. This work
[00:16:04] will continue. In China, there are more cameras than residents in
[00:16:08] many European capitals, according to various estimates, between
[00:16:11] 200 and 700 million are installed.
[00:16:15] For example, in the city of Guiyang, there used to be
[00:16:18] 100 robberies a day, after the installation of cameras, they decreased
[00:16:22] by 200 times. Western journalists conducted
[00:16:25] an experiment on how quickly they would be detained for violations.
[00:16:29] It took 7 minutes. Behind these figures
[00:16:32] are large-scale government programs: SkyNet, Sharp
[00:16:36] Eye. Technologies.
[00:16:46] In Hunan province, in six months, thanks to SkyNet,
[00:16:50] stolen valuables worth 225
[00:16:54] billion yuan were returned. This is not the 88 million
[00:16:57] euros worth of valuables from the Louvre that were stolen and
[00:17:00] disappeared without a trace. And to get back to the topic
[00:17:04] of mobile phone theft, the police can
[00:17:08] even determine where this phone is, and who
[00:17:11] has this phone, but to search
[00:17:15] a house or force this person
[00:17:19] to return it or make him
[00:17:22] a prisoner, that's impossible, that is, they know where the phone is,
[00:17:25] but they don't have the right to take it from that person,
[00:17:29] that is, in fact, this is an excess of
[00:17:33] democracy, which does not allow the police
[00:17:37] to do their direct job, this is also a problem, as the
[00:17:41] police are in some ways tied,
[00:17:45] they cannot do everything they want, everything
[00:17:48] that needs to be done to neutralize
[00:17:52] these mad gangs who are now
[00:17:55] causing this lawlessness on the territory, for example, in
[00:17:59] London there are almost a million video cameras, but the clearance rate for thefts is
[00:18:02] 14%, maybe because thieves know that they will not
[00:18:06] be touched.
[00:18:19] times less than in London, but the jeweler robber
[00:18:23] is found in a day, the serial bicycle thief
[00:18:26] is identified by recordings, and the guy who threw a person
[00:18:30] down the stairs in the subway is detained in a matter of minutes before
[00:18:34] he gets on a bus to a neighboring country. While in Europe
[00:18:37] people are afraid to go out after dark, in Belarus
[00:18:41] they walk at any time of day, because they know they are being watched and
[00:18:45] protected. It's not even about the number of video cameras, but about
[00:18:47] order and state responsibility.