Special Coverage
JAMES TURNER / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
A surveillance camera takes a 360-degree view of an intersection in Minneapolis. Its signal goes to a bank of video screens that may be monitored.
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The unblinking eye
MINNEAPOLIS -- As little as a year ago, the thought of standing idly in front of Wafana's Deli at the corner of 24th Avenue and Lyndale Avenue on Minneapolis's gritty north side would have been laughable, if not suicidal.In 2005, a year before the city forced the grocery to close due to allegations it was an active participant in the area's drug trade, the intersection was the site of 1,300 calls for emergency services.
Police made more than 600 arrests on that corner.
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Minneapolis has cleaned up its act
By James Turner I've been a frequent visitor to Minneapolis now since 2000, usually to see bands that seldom cross the border into Manitoba. <Continued> -
Protests new kind of hurdle for Games
BEIJING -- Crisis. Disarray. Sadness. Four months before the opening of what was supposed to be the grandest Olympics in history, the head of the International Olympic Committee is using words that convey anything but a sense of joyous enthusiasm. <Continued>
