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Deadliest city in America plans to disband its entire police force and fire 270 cops to deal with budget crunch
Camden, New Jersey, the deadliest place in America, is disbanding its entire police force and firing 270 cops in an effort to deal with a massive budget crunch.
The Camden Police Department will be replaced with a force run by the county, which supporters say will cost significantly less and allow more officers on the streets.
Some citizens worry, though that the new officers, many of them from the county police force, won’t be prepared for the tough, violent work of patrolling a dense urban city.
The police union says the force, which will not be unionized, is simply a union-busting move that is meant to get get out of union contracts.
No matter the political wrangling, the murder rate in Camden, a decaying city of 77,000, continues to skyrocket.
There have been 41 homicides in the city so far this year, including 13 in July alone. That puts Camden well on pace to break its record of 58 killings, set in 1995.
The murder rate in ten times higher than it is in New York City, 30 percent higher than New Orleans, the deadliest large city in the country, and three times higher than nearby Philadelphia.
The architects of the plan say they’ll be able to put 400 police officers on the streets of Camden — a dramatic improvement over the 270 who currently work the city, the Camden Courier Post reports.
Czar of Defenestration
August 27th, 2012
Camden: making “Police Force” an OXYMORON since 2012!
WriterGuy
August 27th, 2012
And all while this is happening, our government sees fit to spend BILLION SSS to go to Mars.
Unfreakingbelievable and we the people haven’t the balls to march on Washington and remove those limbs of Satan from office.
xthred
August 27th, 2012
Blacktastic!
moarkdave
August 27th, 2012
I have no real issue with busting the union and the costs associated with them.
What I have an issue with is, that every time the cities and states have to cut their budgets, it is always in law enforcement and schools. While I know costs can be cut there, why not cut other things, not as important to the whole scheme of things. How many Parks and Recreational Employees does Camden still have on the payroll? How many other employees could be cut from Roads, Maintenance and Clerical positions???
bucketman
August 27th, 2012
N.J. local police are too busy shaking down the utility companies for traffic control jobs at $80 per hour plus.
hanoverfist
August 27th, 2012
I wish we had the bulldozers from Avatar.
Just push the whole place down and start over.
Jack Daniels
August 27th, 2012
Cause: Unions
Effects: This and other businesses, schools, hospitals and cities throughout the country broke and broken.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 27th, 2012
a decaying city of 77,000 Democrats.
Wait. Let me try to care…..nope.
persecutor
August 27th, 2012
Camden… a progressive success story if there ever was one. I guess they took a page out of New Fallujah’s playbook.
Zonga
August 27th, 2012
Bust the union, save the city lots of money. I approve.
The county Sheriff and his deputies are fierce, don’t have skimming scams set up yet, have fewer stupid useless female officers. The men are bigger, stronger, take less crap. I’d go with the 400 deputies.
Stirrin the B.S.
August 27th, 2012
The county can put 400 officers on the city streets at presumably the same cost as 270 city cops? That tells you someting right there.
Great Scott
August 27th, 2012
Doesn’t matter….once that hurricane hits New Orleans…it will be THE topic of discussion for another 7 years.
serfer62
August 27th, 2012
It isn’t just the money saved, its the efficency.
Unions require more usless jobs, less actual work with less effect eventually just eating donuts working a couple hours a day.
No. cops, teachers & all govorment employees should be barred from unions
Moe Tom
August 27th, 2012
Cause. Democrat government. Just like Detroit.
Frosteetoes
August 27th, 2012
How many Parks and Recreational Employees does Camden still have on the payroll? How many other employees could be cut from Roads, Maintenance and Clerical positions???
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LOL None. It’s too dangerous to be anywhere at anytime. I use to dread stopping in that rat hole on the bus to work everyday. What they really need there are tanks and soldiers to patrol the streets. Camden city is the county seat for Camden County. Of those 77,000 people, at least 50,000 are welfare legacy families. Great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, teen mother with 3 kids.
It’s a shame too. Old timers use to tell me what a nice place to live, back in the 1920′s. What’s left of the houses you can see how ornate the architecture was.
Toaster
August 27th, 2012
Unfortunately, they’ll never make the most effective change…. Remove Democrats from political office.
They seem to be in a race with Detroit to see which bunch of corrupt race-baiting, poverty-pimp Donks can drive their city to oblivion first.
hanoverfist
August 27th, 2012
IronyCurtain
August 27th, 2012
Same formula every time – remove every single conservative from a designated area and stand back and watch while a savage new Animal Kingdom springs up.
Moe Tom
August 27th, 2012
From Google: “NJ-01 is one of the most relyable Democrat(ic) districts in New Jersey. It is mainly made up of democrat(ic) dominated Camden County- 139,147 Dems. and 43.669 Reps.” “nough said.
Bob M.
August 27th, 2012
$10 says, the Mayor is still driven everywhere in a taxpayer-funded, chauffer-driven, limousine, though!
Billy Fuster
August 27th, 2012
Piss on SIEU and all public union leaders and their minions. They are enemies of freedom and should be treated as such.
shotwell
August 27th, 2012
I grew up across the river from Camden in the 50′s and 60′s it was a hell hole then. Camden couldn’t hold a candle to Newark tho. Chris Christi needs more time in NJ to fix this. If ever.
Diann
August 27th, 2012
Heaven forbid they lay off people from the compliance bureau or the bureau of minority employment or the diversity compliance department.
Sarge
August 27th, 2012
Just how many of those foreclosed houses are on Freddie or Fanny roles and just what local politicians forced the banks into those loans?
Democrats destroying neighborhoods nationwide.
Callmelennie
August 27th, 2012
This just in
Crime rate in Camdem expected to hold steady even after police jobs are cut
Tim
August 27th, 2012
Does the mayor still get round-the-clock protection?
Stranded in Sonoma
August 27th, 2012
Why not just have the gov’t give a gun and ammo to all of the adult residents of Camden, except for anyone with a criminal record? It would be cheaper than their police department.
Wanna bet the crime and murder rates go way down?
geofraz
August 27th, 2012
Anytime you combine government bureaucracy with unions your sure to get absolute incompetence. Camden’s crime rate proves this.
AbigailAdams
August 27th, 2012
It’s beyond incompetence. After some quick searching I learned that Camden has had three mayors over a period of 20 years who were all profoundly corrupt. The last one, Milton Milan was indicted on 14 (of 19) counts of corruption, including taking $50K in bribes from the Mafia, shaking down the public defender’s office for $5K, and much more.
And if the Left and their pious guilty, white liberal cheerleaders think that all it takes is better education, consider that Camdem spends nearly $24,000/student resulting, still, in only about a 66% graduation rate. That price tag is roughly double what Seattle spends per student.
Strangest of all stats, however, was this one: Of the various householder descriptions like married couples, single persons, households with an unmarried woman as head of home, etc., this one caught my attention and I’m not sure what to make of it. “30.9% non-familes” Am I looking at the population in Camden of crack houses and human trafficking?
robert s
August 27th, 2012
Welcome to Camdenistan:
Private Security
provided by
Sharia enforcing Muzzies
Maudie N Mandeville
August 27th, 2012
Unlike liberals, I don’t argue with the facts, but it hurts to see a measly town of 77,000 with only 41 murders get more press than New Orleans.
We’ve currently @17:32 August 27 recorded our 125th thug demise. However, hurricanes always bring out the best in our people, so we’re hoping for another 25-30 in the next few days.
And also, I loved all those NFL tributes to Katrina and the billions that rolled in afterward. I notice many of the natives have removed their blue tarps from the roofs they were to have replaced with the insurance monies and federal grants in hopes of filing another claim on the 7 year old damage.
Pray for us if you will but “donate you much”.
Carlos The Jackal
August 27th, 2012
And when the cops are gone and you need to arm yourself, NJ is one of the more restrictive states for CCW, with a “may issue” policy, where
you must be ” a retired New Jersey police officer or federal officer to be entitled to an unrestricted CCW permit. You may also be an armored car worker. These are not statutory requirements, but a CCW permit is almost never issued to anyone else in New Jersey. The basis for issuing a permit is almost completely discretionary and you must demonstrate an urgent need for self-protection.”
weapon.html#ixzz24n5jaY52http://www.ehow.com/how_2064612_get-permit-carry-concealed-weapon.html
Corona
August 27th, 2012
First things cut- Police, Fire, teachers, sanitation, FEMA, DOT. The Unions/Dems do this to scare the general public.
What should be cut- the incredibly humongous, 100x larger invisible bureaucracy hidden in town, city, county and state halls. College tenure profs, SEIU, AFSCME, etc.
HooHooNayNay
August 27th, 2012
I read that they are getting ready for a Robocop reboot. Perfect location, shouldn’t cost too much…
seattle snow
August 28th, 2012
unfortunately unlike that other well known distressed city in New Jersey known as Newark, they have the benefit of being attached to the super city of New York thus folks are telling themselves “I’m only 20 min away from Manhattan 24 hour a day” versus on the other end of the Jersey Turnpike lies Camden a city I doubt thats on the Romney/Ryan campaign list but with the Greater Philadelphia economy there isn’t much use for Camden as your quality of life is slightly improved across the Delaware River in Philadelphia even if the Commonwealth of Penna is doing everything in there power to prevent “those people” from voting
David K
August 28th, 2012
Nuke it from orbit, it is the only way to be sure.
No Side Effects
August 28th, 2012
That’s ok. The national guard are not as familiar with criminal’s rights as cops are. They might do a better job of stopping crime.