Not from what I can see in my neighborhood.
Camden No. 1 again...
Though 2011 is long gone, it continues to haunt Camden Mayor Dana L. Redd.
In addition to being the poorest city in the nation that year, Camden had the highest crime rate in the country.
CQ Press recently released its official ranking of 432 cities based on 2011 rates of reported crimes in a half-dozen categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and vehicle theft.
Camden’s overall crime rate was more than five times the national average. Its murder rate of 60.6 per 100,000 population was nearly 12 times higher.
And remember, last year Camden had an all-time city record of 67 reported homicides — up 20 from 2011.
Cities with high murder rates tend to place at the top of the overall ranking (which used to identify the country’s “most dangerous” locales) because the murder rate is so low nationally, said CQ Press spokeswoman Camille Gamboa.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/camden_flow/188927931.html#zkFs70Y2B5Orl4SE.99
“New Jersey — number 6 on the smartest list.”
“Not from what I can see in my neighborhood.”
Lots of junior high schoolers, filled with hubris, flaunting their self-proclaimed intellectual superiority to the so-called knuckle-dragging, gun-loving, bible-thumping Christian morons in flyover country.
IMHO