Businesses in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood have seen a significant drop in crime, thanks to a network of surveillance cameras along Madison Avenue.

“In the last year, we’ve had a 60 percent drop in crime,” says Birgit Hilliard, from Cudell Improvement, Inc., a non-profit community group.

Merchants purchased the cameras, with the help of funds from Cudell Improvement, which helped to coordinate the areas for the cameras to monitor.

More than 50 cameras now cover a 1.25-mile stretch of Madison Avenue.

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