Don't worry, Camden has former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman on patrol with the NJ State Police.
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Posted on 11/21/2005 9:02:00 AM PST by ncountylee
CAMDEN, N.J., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- City officials in Camden, N.J., are taking the offensive against a Kansas statistical firm that ranks Camden as the most dangerous city in the United States.
Monday, the Morgan Quitno firm released its annual ranking of dangerous cities based on six types of crime, and for the second year, Camden was first in the country among 354 cities.
The study analyzed the occurrence rates of murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary and motor vehicle theft.
However, local officials told the Camden Courier-Post the latest rankings use figures from 2004, and overlook improvements made in 2005.
"Last year is old news. The ranking is not an appropriate measure of where we stand today," said Camden County Prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi.
Camden Chief Operating Officer Randy Primas said the Marriott hotel chain backed out of plans to build a hotel downtown after last year's ranking was announced.
I've been in Newark for an extended stay (2 weeks) on a project and all the horror stories are justified. One cabbie took us on a shortcut to the hotel and I literally thought that was the end.
Every parking lot has 20 ft high fences PLUS razor wire around it.
I saw another story based on this data and some dim bulbs from Camden claiming that 'people moved out just because a serial rapist was operating in the area' (!) and one person who said 'I don't hear that many gunshots at night' (!!!).
Ayn Rand says, "Crime breeds poverty".
"Last year is old news. The ranking is not an appropriate measure of where we stand today," said Camden County Prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi."
I can see Camden across the Delaware River from where I sit and it is as close as I care to get.
Of course, if they divided the city into North St Louis and South St Louis, we could be in the Top Ten in both lists.
I believe the reason that the USS New Jersey is docked in Camden is because that is where the Political RATs are centered in NJ and it was a political favor to the local corrupt politician...
Congrats again to the "Garden State."
Morristown comes to mind. I went there and understood why NJ calls itself "The Garden State." It was beautiful!
Atlanta is #7 - which is why I live in Cumming, GA and seldom venture inside the Perimeter (I285).
Yup
So what, I live here too and I'm a republican. BTW do you know anything about New Jersey? The Earle Naval station is a weapons depot and warship reloading facility built extending out to sea, which is extremely off limits for security and safety reasons. An odd place for a ship museum open to the public, eh?
Then you're just as close to neighborhoods in Philly you want no part of, except with no river in between.
Liberty State Park would have been a better place than Camden, hands down.
No, I was just born here and lived here my whole life.
By the way, you are probably right that dem politicos like Norcross got some of this stuff for South Jersey. So? That's one of the few good things they've done.
OK me too, I lived in N Jersey now I live in S Jersey. Both are good, S Jersey is definitely safer, less crowded, and far fewer bad cities like Camden. Camden is the only one down here and it's tiny. Compare that to Newark that spread out and ruined many large surrounding cities - East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, to name just a few.
I love the Aquarium in Camden but running the gauntlet down Martin Luther King Boulevard in Camden to get there is ridiculous.
Sure, but MLK Blvd is a short underused road compared to many you will find in Newark, NY, even Trenton. Camden sucks but criticizing won't help. The cities need rebuilding and although some is occurring you won't get a good job done with democrats in power.
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