Posted on 06/09/2020 8:06:24 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Camden dissolved its police department to root out corruption.
The city's crime rate was among the worst in the US. Within nine square miles and among nearly 75,000 residents, there were over 170 open-air drug markets reported in 2013, county officials told CNN. Violent crime abounded. Police corruption was at the core.
Lawsuits filed against the department uncovered that officers routinely planted evidence on suspects, fabricated reports and committed perjury. After the corruption was exposed, courts overturned the convictions of 88 people, the ACLU reported in 2013.
So in 2012, officials voted to completely disband the department -- it was beyond reform.
And in 2013, the Camden County Police Department officially began its tenure. No other city of Camden's size has done anything quite like it.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
So in 2012, officials voted to completely disband the department -- it was beyond reform.
Misleading. Read on:
And in 2013, the Camden County Police Department officially began its tenure.
No, the city police was replaced by the County Police. And CNN will not admit that part of the reason was to save money.
>No, the city police was replaced by the County Police. And CNN will not admit that part of the reason was to save money.
And 150 police were replaced by 400 police.
Bump
The left does not want to abolish the police. They want to OWN it.
I am pretty sure Miami did this about 30+ years ago with the merger of the city police with the Dade County Police. There was a spiraling crime problem, the new Miami-Dade Police became much larger than the two previous departments. The rapid expansion brought many marginal types into the department. It was rough sledding for several years.
Today it has nothing to do with finance, it only is about expanding democrat power.
And zero corruption? Anyone who believes that I have oceanfront property for sale in Kansas.
We have seen how corrupt the Keystone Kops are. Murphy’s Law #1,039,648: “The larger the organization, the more corruption there is.”
Exactly, they want a new and improved law enforcement arm like...The SS, Stasi, .... these goons would be folks born and raised with a pure hatred of anything our nation has stood for. This will be the secret and weaponized police of the DNC.
Amazing how this is all coming about, and the DNC doesn’t even own the WH or Senate. Imagine if they did?
Dems didn’t control the city police?
Yep. But the word police is not popular in the BLM crowd. So they will use another term, foreign, so the new force has an exotic veneer of multiculturalism. The new term will be “polizei”.
This is pretty much true....it was the county sheriff and his deputies that took over much of the job.
We can admit....on the corruption level, the old police department probably was incapable of ever resolving the ‘mess’.
Question..
if these city police departments go away. And are to be policed by a county level PD..
What happens when the city is a “ sanctuary city” and the County is not?
Does this eliminate sanctuary cities and restore reciprocity between local and Fed Leo/ CB etc?
This could be one of those Unintended Consequences that could Really work out well!!!
And as MOST county level Leo tends to be elected, that could be a great thing as well!!
I have read about of a lot of towns that didn’t have police. When someone committed a heaneous crime they formed a posse and the perp was brought to justice at the short end of a rope. Is this what they are wanting?
So they just changed the name.
So it rehired over a quarter of it’s old force and I’m sure it was the ones who were the TOP MONEY MAKERS!!!
In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Signal Hill disbanded its police department in the wake of the Ron Settles scandal. The family hired Johnny Cochran in a wrongful death lawsuit before he represented OJ. The city contracted the neighboring Long Beach police instead. Later I believe a new SH force was re established. The police never go away in these cases.
Omitted was the fact that the county sheriff then took control and policed the city
Also...
“...there were over 170 open-air drug markets reported in 2013...”
So, the bruthas dealing drugs said “We support the new police force.”, and closed up their drug-dealing markets? I don’t think so. They’re still there...just ignored for diversity or something..
And 100 officers were rehired it says.
And the entire thing is based one a huge lie.
More whites are shot by police than blacks, the ratio is nearly 2:1.
When a black suspect is shot by police, the officer is statistically more likely to be black than white.
In 99% of all encounters, no force is used by police.
When force *is* used, 98% of the time, no injuries are sustained by the suspect.
(The last two came from a peer reviewed trauma medicine journal. The rest have been empirically proven via peer reviewed studies)
If I didn’t have a migraine, I would dig out all of the links. The info is all available. For now.
**This is a huge and extremely dangerous hoax and grand corporate shakedown.**
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