MountainLaurel
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Thu Jan-19-06 10:38 AM
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Federal Grants Bring Surveillance Cameras to Small Towns |
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BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. -- This snowy village, in the shadow of Fall Mountain and alongside the iced-over Connecticut River, is the kind of place where a little of anything usually suffices. There are just eight full-time police officers on the town's force, two chairs in the barbershop and one screen in the theater.
A little of anything -- except surveillance cameras. Bellows Falls has decided it needs 16 of those.
Using federal grant money, police plan to put up the 24-hour cameras at such spots as intersections, a sewage plant and the town square. All told, this hamlet will have just three fewer police surveillance cameras than the District of Columbia, which has 181 times Bellows Falls's population.
Similar cameras are already up in the Virginia communities of Galax and Tazewell, where police can pan right down Main Street, and in tiny Preston, Md., with two police officers and five police cameras. An interest in public, permanent video surveillance -- as well as the federal dollars to pay for it -- seems to be flowing down to the smallest levels of American law enforcement.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011802324.html
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Thu Jan-19-06 10:47 AM
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1. There was a reason we called it Fellows Balls when I grew up. |
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How times in the past week I have referred to this country as the Fourth Reich. It saddens my heart deeply that we were so asleep at the wheels of justice and decency that this have happened in short time.
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