WE are definitely speaking of the same Amy C.
[QUOTE=Lamel]Kilgore, YES! I am talking about Amy C. She is from my town as well. I suppose we went to the same HS, (Starts w/ a C and orange and brown colors? ) Well, that is her. I have another friend from there who was out on Broadway a little bit after the 90's, well maybe 99 or so. I knew Amy got clean but last I saw she was living w/ her Mother in C. Park. I had no idea she got married. Good for her. She is a very smart girl, always was. Just got caught in the scene.
The girl I used to see on Broadway was the same story. From a nice family in a nice town. She was friends w/ Amy as well. She is a little younger than Amy. Name is Alison. Also clean now with a family. Can't believe that she and Amy got out of there. Two of the few who did. Do you know her?[/QUOTE]
Lamel,
It appears as though we are both "chiefs"! I wouldn't be surprised if we were actually friends, very small world. If you want more info on Amy, check out our highschool alumni webpage and see her posting in the class of 91/90, that is where I found the info about her being married with kids. She was a smart girl who got caught in the "scene" and from what I heard her brother also got messed-up pretty bad with crack and heroin. I wish I stilled lived in our hometown, it was only a 5-minute drive to the Camden stroll!
KT2
No Tell Hotel Information
I went to a no tell today and the clerk didn't want to see ID but they wanted to have a valid tag number. The last time I went the clerk asked if the information was real that I put on the card. I recently read a report of something similar happening to another monger. Anybody have any ideas on what is up with the information requests?
Camden to invest in network of cameras
I saw this article in today's courier post. Found it interesting!
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CAMDEN — Candid cameras are coming to Camden to capture criminals.
The city's Urban Enterprise Zone is organizing a $2.5 million program to install dozens of security cameras across six commercial districts in the city.
The UEZ is providing the first $500,000, and verbal agreements with other companies, which can't yet be named, have been made for the rest, said Vincent Basara, coordinator of the UEZ.
Bids for the camera system should be made by the end of the summer, and installation could be ready by winter. Once installed, civilians within the police department will monitor the "pan, tilt and zoom" rotating cameras along sections of Broadway, Haddon Avenue, Federal Street, Mount Ephraim Avenue, Westfield Avenue and in Yorkship Square.
"We need to stabilize the commercial corridors for public and private investment," Basara said.
Camden does not have a networked camera system, but law enforcement officials in other cities such as Newark and Jersey City have seen reductions in crime or used the video to capture criminals, Basara said.
Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker and Police Chief Garry McCarthy unveiled the new Surveillance Operations Center last week, crediting the city's 109-camera system as already helping capture illegal firearms and providing leads to investigations.
But Ed Barocas, Legal Director for the New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union characterizes these cameras another way.
"These cameras are bad for civil liberties, bad for police departments and bad for communities," Barocas said. "The cameras do not make us safer. There is a cost, both in terms of the society we have, and big brother watching us. The money can be better used to put more officers on the street."
He added that cameras often become tools for "voyeurism" and not law enforcement.
Basara, however, said people's privacy has been calculated into the camera system because special software has been added to prevent any video monitoring if the camera tilts or pans too high. For example, a camera couldn't record a resident's second floor bedroom window. This pan function can only be enabled with the OK of a police officer supervisor, Basara said.
Near the corner of Federal Street and Broadway, David Kumara sells jeans and other clothes to make a living, but he does so with a persistent fear that someone wants to rob him or steal his sidewalk merchandise. Just on Thursday, one man started picking a fight with him, another was doing drugs and threw the vial on the ground and a third person started urinating behind a pillar.
"If there are cameras, (the police) will catch them," Kumara said.
But a few yards away, Earl Ledford said the city just wants the cameras to make a buck, so it can ticket jaywalkers or people parking illegally.
"Anything they do is just to make money," Ledford, who operates a food cart, said.
The UEZ is also expanding the city's Special Service District Clean Team, which, for the past three years, has removed trash, powerwashed sidewalks and served as "ambassadors" to residents and visitors in the downtown area, Basara said. The UEZ is providing a $484,000 award to add dedicated personnel to service parts of Yorkship Square, Haddon Avenue, Federal Street, River Road and Broadway