By Doug Caruso
The first of a planned 10 surveillance cameras has been installed in the Weinland Park neighborhood near Ohio State University.
Police turned it on yesterday at the intersection of N. 4th Street and 11th Avenue.
Cameras already have been installed in high-crime areas on the Hilltop on the West Side and the Mount Vernon area of the Near East Side. They also will be installed near Livingston and Parsons avenues on the South Side and in the Linden neighborhood on the North Side.
In all, city officials plan to install 114 cameras at a cost of about $2 million to observe public areas in high-crime neighborhoods. Though some have raised questions about whether the cameras violate civil liberties, neighborhood leaders seeking a solution to chronic crime problems have clamored for the cameras.
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