It's a terribly poor place BUT some of the worst descriptions here are overblown. I have never been attacked in Camden beyond a street person panhandling. The NJ Aquarium, RCA renovations (to apartments), Battleship NJ, Marina, etc are all improvements and basically succesful. But I don't think they reach many of the citizens with jobs.
I grew up in a Newark suburb and I would still rather be stranded in Camden than Newark. It's sad because Camden is right on the river across from all the more valuable Philly real estate.
I also blame liberal democrats for just about everything, including Camden. But because republicans don't live in these cities, it means no one really wants to clean them up.
I was exercising a horse at the old Garden State racetrack when the horse died of a heart attack. I was hurt and they took me to Cooper---great docs!