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America's Second Most Violent City Is Firing Half Its Police Department (Stay out of Camden,NJ)
Business Insider ^ | 12/03/2010 | Gus Lubin

Posted on 12/03/2010 8:01:22 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: camden; newjersey; police
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To: WayneS

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

Well, I think Camden is too cold for monkeys and hyenas.

The decay of once prosperous cities is disturbing. America looks increasingly like the third world. Most of the big industries that made this country great are gone. For instance, RCA Victor (remember them?) manufactured records, radios and televisions in Camden.


41 posted on 12/03/2010 9:32:34 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: thethirddegree
They are hyenas and baboons. As others have said, not a Photoshop, but not Camden.

I felt bad for Camden, so I thought I'd put a picture of a city that's even worse. Had to get one of Lagos Nigeria to do it though.

42 posted on 12/03/2010 9:34:01 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: TexasRepublic
Don't forget Campells Soups used to have a factory in Camden. My father and grandfather were carpenters on a expansion building project in the 1950s.
43 posted on 12/03/2010 9:35:18 AM PST by 4yearlurker (I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
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To: PATRIOT1876
How did Camden snatch the Title away from Gary and Detroit?

I don't think there's anybody left to mug in those cities.

44 posted on 12/03/2010 9:35:50 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: TexasRepublic

Plam trees don’t grow too well outdoors in New Jersey either.


45 posted on 12/03/2010 9:36:40 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: WayneS

... also PALM trees...


46 posted on 12/03/2010 9:37:07 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: 4yearlurker

I am sorry for your loss.

Seriously.


47 posted on 12/03/2010 9:38:19 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: dead

*How did Camden snatch the Title away from Gary and Detroit?
I don’t think there’s anybody left to mug in those cities.*

Yep.

You can only mug the same people so many times.


48 posted on 12/03/2010 9:38:29 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: WayneS
I suspect the picture was taken somewhere in Africa and NOT in Camden, NJ, but HOW can we be sure?

The literacy rate in Africa is higher than in inner-city America, and law-abiding Africans are allowed to be armed.

Oh, and African dictators have to be natural born citizens of their respective countries.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

49 posted on 12/03/2010 9:38:58 AM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Is there such a thing a "too vibrant" a city?

This place looks worse than Mogadishu.

50 posted on 12/03/2010 9:39:05 AM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: 4yearlurker

*Now Camden looks like Somalia. Gee...I wonder what happened?*

LBJ lost the War on Poverty.


51 posted on 12/03/2010 9:39:50 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: WayneS
HOW can we be sure?

Africa is cleaner.

52 posted on 12/03/2010 9:45:07 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: WayneS
On the top of this thread,the third photo down shows whats left of one of those little corner stores. Half a sub,50 cents,large bottle of RC Cola,15 cents,small bag of Herrs chips,10 cents,two comic books 24 cents. All that for less than a dollar. The last time I was in Camden was about 1984. It looked like a war zone then.
53 posted on 12/03/2010 9:45:21 AM PST by 4yearlurker (I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
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To: WayneS
How New Jersey Legislature can fix +/-90% of their problems with inner-city violence:

Even better: abolish welfare totally. Let the underclass move elsewhere or stop being underclass.

54 posted on 12/03/2010 9:52:44 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: WayneS

“Plam trees don’t grow too well outdoors in New Jersey either.”

Or palm trees either, for that matter. :-)


55 posted on 12/03/2010 9:55:21 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: 4yearlurker

RCA too. I won’t even go across the river that way anymore. Concert halls, the aquarium, forget it.


56 posted on 12/03/2010 10:10:06 AM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: SueRae

You won’t cross The Ben Franklin bridge into beautiful downtown Camden?


57 posted on 12/03/2010 10:14:20 AM PST by 4yearlurker (I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
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To: 4yearlurker

Nope. Haven’t been there in ahwile...if I do, it’s the Commodore Barry...I’d rather take my chances in Chester than Camden...and that’s not saying much..


58 posted on 12/03/2010 10:24:36 AM PST by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: mountn man

Oakland, Calif is #1, IIRC.

They have voted there to have large Pot Clubs—with a minimum permit annually of $220,000.


59 posted on 12/03/2010 10:43:45 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: from occupied ga; Alberta's Child; Zuben Elgenubi

Thank you for the lessons.

I guess I’d still like to envision police officers holding themselves up to higher standards. Obviously, Camden cops were not doing that.

I’m from NC, but I lived in Camden, Patterson & Newark as a youngster (Dad traveled to where the jobs were). Didn’t like NJ much then...but loved Wildwood/Cape May later in life.


60 posted on 12/03/2010 11:16:39 AM PST by moovova (Don't let Obama spoil the word "hope" for you...)
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