with a twinge of smugness

Crime rates aren't any better (and some rates are worse) even though nearly $400 million (US) has been spent to install more than 10,000 spy cameras throughout Great Britain.

Shockingly, crime experts assert that extra street lighting and better-trained police officers are more effective counter-measures to crime.

Wow! Making your streets feel safer by reducing creepy-dark shadows and competent law enforcement?

Who woulda thunk?

Article: This is London