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公共监控设施势在必行 　　Abstract : This paper focuses on American crime issues and tries to bring some effective and useful ideas to the prevention of crime in China. Surveillance equipment, which is able to help police to prevent crime in a effective way, however, also brings some privacy problem to the society. Based on the study of United States crime rate and related research, this paper claims that surveillance equipment is important and necessary for the prevention of crime, especially the street crime. 　　Keywords : Surveillance equipment, privacy, crime rate, street robbery 　　1. Introduction: 　　With the development of science and economy, new technology becomes more and more popular. Such as security camera and public surveillance equipment, all these facilities make a enormous improvement on the prevention of crime nowadays. However, it creates some privacy problems to some extent. Some citizens feel uncomfortable to be watched in public all the time; citizens should own the right to keep their privacy from surveillance even in public. 　　2. Situation in United States: 　　As we know, the typical crime which usually occurs in public is robbery. Data from the American police department indicates that nearly 408,217 robberies occurred nationwide in 2009 (FBI.gov), which means there will be around one thousand citizens robbed every single day in the United States. It is not hard to see that people there are living under enormous threats from crimes everyday, even it is a most advantage and powerful country. The worse is that robbery, which is defined as the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of persons by force or threat of force or violence and by putting the victim in fear (FBI.gov), not only takes peoples money, but also threatens peoples health or even life. That means robbery occurred in public will be more dangerous and harmful to citizens daily lives. It is not a big deal if a crime only takes a little property, bu