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One Of The Most Dangerous Cities In The Country Is Losing Its Police Department
Business Insider ^
| Aug. 27, 2012, 10:33 AM
| Abby Rogers
Posted on 08/27/2012 10:05:20 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum
A New Jersey city that reported a murder rate of 46.8 percent per 100,000 people in 2010 is now without a police department.
Camden, N.J., often dubbed the most dangerous city in the country, is disbanding its police department in a bid to shave millions of dollars off the annual budget, FoxNews.com reported Sunday.
The department will be replaced with the non-union "Metro Division" of the Camden County Police, which police unions in the area say is "definitely a form of union-busting.
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Camden is undoubtedly the worst city here in NJ. Having it called the worst in the nation doesn't surprise me.
To: Focault's Pendulum
46.8 percent, eh? Sounds like a self-solving problem in that everyone will soon be dead.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:08:18 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Tantaros: "Plainly put, Romney and Ryan can't push granny off the cliff. Obama beat them to it.")
To: Focault's Pendulum
The writer obviously doesn’t understand statistics.
46.8 percent per 100,000 people would be 46,800 people being killed per 100,000. :-)
I think it’s just 46.8 per 100,000, not percent!
To: Focault's Pendulum
But I am sure they still have “diversity” programs and giant waste disposal contracts by people who visit “Da ‘Bing”
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:10:35 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
To: NonValueAdded
I know. The data show actually 46 people per 100,000.
46% would mean that someone(s) was really busy.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:10:40 AM PDT
by
Hang'emAll
(Ride to the sound of the guns!)
To: Focault's Pendulum
Arm your citizens and they will drive the crime ate down.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:11:27 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: NonValueAdded
46.8 percent, eh? Sounds like a self-solving problem in that everyone will soon be dead. That is substantial 46,800 in 2010 alone. Must not be much of anybody left there by now.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:12:12 AM PDT
by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: NonValueAdded
Wow, 36,197 people killed in 2010. Can’t believe I missed that in the news. Need to pay more attention.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:12:15 AM PDT
by
warpsmith
(The Country Needs a Little R&R)
To: TheCornerOffice
I think it’s just 46.8 per 100,000, not percent! Yeah, I caught that too.
To: NonValueAdded
[46.8 percent, eh? Sounds like a self-solving problem in that everyone will soon be dead.]
Instead of building a new prison they could surround the place with an electrified fence.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:13:36 AM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Hang'emAll
46% would mean that someone(s) was really busy.Or that the author ditched school too many times.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:14:12 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
( Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Brad from Tennessee
they could surround the place with an electrified fence. 'Escape from Camden'.... "Snake Pliskin! I thought you wuz dead!"
/johnny
To: TheCornerOffice
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:27:41 AM PDT
by
wiggen
(The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
To: Focault's Pendulum; wideawake
Some on the extreme John Birch right are attacking the very idea of police departments, pointing out that they didn't exist prior to Sir Robert Peel.
This should make them feel really good.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:30:05 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: Focault's Pendulum
Camden, N.J., often dubbed the most dangerous city in the country,
Chicago, you slackers, pick up the pace to reclaim the 'MOST DANGEROUS CITY BANNER'. /s
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:32:44 AM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
To: Focault's Pendulum
Evidently the police dept. wasn’t policing very well.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:37:52 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Focault's Pendulum
not oen beauracrat or administrator? only cops huh..that’ll generate a hue and cry to raise taxes and stop laying off policemen. create a crises that will get people running to city hall to have their taxes raised.
adn the cops will get the blame, not the beauracrats or administrators (cronies) who were never in any danger. government grows, liberty shrinks...
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:45:34 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: wiggen
0.046%
Still a pretty big number for murders in a year.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:46:52 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
To: Focault's Pendulum
Deputize every able bodied citizen in Camden and put out the word that deadly force is authorized when dealing with the thugs.
To: Focault's Pendulum
The Libertarians should move in and declare it their free state. The cop haters can join them.
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posted on
08/27/2012 11:13:45 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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