It has been mentioned Britain's love with extreme surveillance before (see this story
 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell%2C+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do
), which turns every citizen into a would-be criminal. If you decide to spend your vacation in London, say, you'll find it next to impossible to miss the ubiquitous surveillance cameras, installed, as the story goes, to prevent crime (an almost unprovable and thus politically very useful assertion). And indeed the cameras are extremely useful to identify suspects in those very crimes they didn't deter in the first place.