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A flat-screen television shows street activity as an East Orange officer works inside the police communications command center at police headquarters in East Orange, New Jersey March 28, 2006. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Lenox Avenue in suburban East Orange was long a hotbed of drugs and gun mayhem and one of New Jersey's toughest streets. But Big Brother has cleaned it up. Police here say that thanks to new technology there has not been a single violent crime in almost a year on a street where the notorious Bloods gang sold $10 hits of crack cocaine and drive-by shootings were once...