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Big Brother’s Blue Camera Expanding to A Street Corner Near You

If you’re within the Rochester city limits regularly, you are no doubt familiar with those street cameras with  flashing blue lights.  They are meant to cut down on crime.   I have mixed feelings about them.  Like most people, I’m opposed to crime(either of the street or boardroom variety), but also like most people,  I’m opposed to the intrusion of big brother.   I figured, “well, at least they are confined to bad areas.”  But then again, there’s that old fear that it starts in bad areas of the city, then expands.  Then again, maybe I’m letting my imagination get the best of me.

Last night we’re coming out of Jine’s Restaurant, located at the trendy restaurant intense Park & Berkeley intersection.   I suddenly see the flashing blue light.  Years ago, I used to live a few streets down.  I never noticed any shady characters.   There’s another blue flasher toward the other end of Park, near the other big flock of Park Avenue eateries.   I guess they want to make all the many people who come to dine in those areas feel safe.

Maybe they’ll eventually put a camera in our living rooms to make us feel safe from the possiblity of domestic violence.  I’m just sayin’.

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