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CCTV, DNA, fingerprinting etc is all reactive- it helps (sometimes) to identify the perpetrator, but they have to perp first.
It'll only reduce actual numbers of crimes commited if a sufficient number of people are arrested and convicted in a way that shows that some crimes are always solved- and what are the odds of that?
Addressing the social issues, greater numbers of police involved with communities and so forth is the only thing that is going to reduce criminality.
Alternatively we go back to the good old days and impose transportation as the punishment for the first offence- recidivism is strictly limited if you are 8,000 miles away- from the perspective of your original society anyway.