Contact Admin. They warn passing prostitutes and their clientele that their activities are under video surveillance. Blankenship has set up degrees of video surveillance around his Bluefield Avenue home. Staff photo by Eric DiNovo. Some prostitutes repeatedly walk along the avenue despite surveillance cameras.
Blankenship said he has asked them as nicely as possible not to come around his home, but some keep walking the avenue there. She has put miles in front of my driveway here. Blankenship plans to move from Bluefield next year, but he intends to leave the signs up until then. Some prostitutes and their clients have been deterred by the surveillance warnings, but others are not discouraged.
Fines for repeat offenders need to be greater, too. Blankenship added that he once lived on Thorn Street in Princeton and had to contend with prostitution there, too. He said like in Bluefield, he asked them nicely not to come around his home. I try to just mind my own business; but you know, you can only do so much.
If more people in the community were proactive, they could help discourage the practice of prostitution, he said. He pointed out one elderly prostitute he sees frequently, and a blond prostitute who appeared in both day and night images.
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