America's Second Most Violent City Is Firing Half Its Police Department (Stay out of Camden,NJ)

Business Insider ^ | 12/03/2010 | Gus Lubin

[SeekAndFind]

The second most violent city in America just approved plans to layoff half its police force, according to NBC New York.

Camden, N.J. will fire one in four city workers on Jan. 18, including half of police.

This comes just days after Newark, N.J. fired 167 police officers, which marked the biggest force reduction in 32 years.

Camden was named the second most violent city based FBI crime data that came out last week. Newark was named the 23 most violent city in America.

[angcat]

It is terrible looks like Charlotte street in the day. The Bronx is paradise compared to this. It is terrible to do this to the people there.

[dead]

[Malesherbes]

Camden: 50% black; 43% hispanic; 7% white. The city is a plantation, a museum of Democratic-Socialist nostrums, a cesspool of corruption.

The State of New Jersey can’t fix it. The only thing that can fix it is if the people who live there finally get fed up and fix it themselves.

[Ditto]

Good photos of LBJs Great Society there. Don’t it make you proud what our glorious government can do in only 40 years and at a cost of only $10 Trillion. They really have changed the face of America. < /s >

[thethirddegree]

What a sewer.

[Oldpuppymax]

Those all-white, middle class cities are always dangerous.

[thethirddegree]

What are those animals? Is this a photoshop?

[WayneS]

Yes. Exactly.

It’s the influence of those darned Amish people...

...causing trouble EVERYWHERE they go.

[WayneS]

They appear to be hyenas and baboons

I suspect the picture was taken somewhere in Africa and NOT in Camden, NJ, but HOW can we be sure?

;-)

[dfwgator]

“Welcome to the Jungle, we’ve got fun and games....”

[Drew68]

What are those animals? Is this a photoshop?

Hyenas and baboons. Not photoshop, but not Camden, NJ., either.

[bvw]

That last set of four looks like a age progression over some years, starting at the upper left and proceeding clockwise.

I'm going to make a prediction. If they keep the number of police down, crime will go down.

[Drew68]

I suspect the picture was taken somewhere in Africa and NOT in Camden, NJ, but HOW can we be sure?

Wherever it is, it actually looks nicer than Camden!

[PATRIOT1876]

Looks like Gary, Indiana.

How did Camden snatch the Title away from Gary and Detroit?

I suppose the “most violent” award is voted on using different metrics than “per capita murders”

[Rebelbase]

“Better that they should become vegetable gardens.”

I bet the soils are tainted with a century plus of lead and industrial fallout.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: How did Camden snatch the Title away from Gary and Detroit?

I guess the city got tired of just being #2 and it’s goal is to be #1. :)

[from occupied ga]

Firing police officers is wrong, and the pols allowing this should be run out of town

Why? they've obviously not been doing their job.

[4yearlurker]

I remember Camden from the mid 1960s. Just starting to get bad. There were still polish meat markets to buy great kielbasa,and mom and pop corner stores for a bottle of Frank's soda and a few comic books. Those old row homes in the photos were actually quite nice and roomy. I have a lot of great Christmas memories with family from back then. It started to get bad when my cousins had to run to school and run home again. The black kids would beat them up every chance they got. They would take their money and their shoes. All my relatives got out in the late 1960s. Now Camden looks like Somalia. Gee...I wonder what happened?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The black kids would beat them up every chance they got

Are you telling us that there used to be a big number of White people living in Camden then ?

[4yearlurker]

There were Irish sections,polish sections,Italian sections,etc....