COLUMN: Surveillance cameras will improve safety in downtown Columbia

Thursday, December 10, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST; updated 8:13 p.m. CST, Thursday, December 10, 2009

This is where my political road departs from my liberal brethren and the conservative paranoids. It is not 1984. It is not Big Brother. And despite what the American Civil Liberties Union says, and I am a dues-paying member, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that what happens on the public streets and sidewalks is not private. This ain’t Vegas.

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