Posted on 09/24/2012 8:40:54 AM PDT by Kartographer
This city, long among the nation's poorest and most crime-ridden, is on the verge of dismantling its police department and starting anew with a force run by the county government. City officials are making the move to increase the number of officers while keeping the cost the same by averting rules negotiated with a union that city officials have seen as unwilling to compromise. Unless the union - which is skeptical of the stated motivations for the change - reaches a deal with the county, no more than 49 per cent of the city's current officers could join the new force and those that do will get pay cuts.
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Your Assumption is correct, and your observation that most of the murders here are criminals killing each other. What has us worried is that there have been a couple of shootouts recently (one in a busy downtown mall) in which innocents were caught in the crossfire.
There is no development in Camden, and the homes that are there are falling into shambles. It’s pretty bad in most parts. I would think that left to continue, Camden will simply disappear within a generation, since there won’t be anywhere left to live and nobody will develop there. Perhaps this move will speed up the process.
OTOH, it might be that in order to drive traffic to the original site, burying below the excerpt, depending on how far down it is, is the equivalent of putting all the details of a headline inside a newspaper so that you have to purchase it to achieve “closure”.
Here is an idea: pull in the patrols and make the city a free fire zone:
Go ahead Adam 12:
Central, Fire mission. Grid 734536, Direction 4800...ten urban outdoorsman in the open. Fire for effect.
This is the first sign that Camden can no longer afford the Union corruption. If they can see it in Camden Maybe the rest of America see it and end Union tyranny. They could start with Teachers and follow up with a big dump on SEIU.
Camden is already Nj’s Detroit; if you visit the battleship New Jersey you’re driving through blocks upon blocks of a ghost town to get there.
On the east side of NJ, Asbury Park has the distinction of already earning a place on “ghosttowns.com” (for the same reason Camden is dead - but we’re not allowed to speak of it).
I drove through Camden years ago and was shocked at how many buildings were vacant; you’d drive for blocks and not see a single person.
Since the “white flight” years ago, these cities have been unable to pay their own bills; our recent layoffs in NJ of thousands of cops, firemen, and teachers were decades overdue. In the meantime, they chased out countless businesses and taxpayers by trying to keep the bloated gubmint workforce in place. Soon all that will be left will be the multi-generational welfare paraistes, illegal aliens (I know there is some overlap there), and the gubmint workers to “administer” them.
I was more worried by the Scarborough Bluffs shooting—in part because my wife is from Scarburbia so we make it down there one in a while (we live four hours north of the city which is about right) and in part because I hate the Eaton Centre—any reason not to go there is a good one in my opinion.
How long before all the cop haters of FR move there, I wonder?
(Not that I’m a big fan door-kicking, dog killing type cops, but they’re likely to be more help than hippies or gangsters...)
I agree about Eaton Centre; I live four blocks away from it but last time I went in was two months ago, and that was to stay out of the rain while walking elsewhere.
Yeah, but just think of all the secondary projectiles afforded by streets and brick buildings. Every flat is a ready made Claymore.
Collateral damage becomes synonymous with urban renewal.
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