One of most dangerous cities in US plans to ditch police force

[koalabear]

Amid what they call a “public safety crisis,” officials in Camden, N.J., plan to disband the city's 141-year-old police department and replace it with a non-union division of the Camden County Police.

Camden city officials have touted the move as necessary to combat the city’s growing financial and safety problems. The entire 267-member police department will be laid off and replaced with a newly reformatted metro division, which is projected to have some 400 members. It will serve only the city of Camden starting in early 2013.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...cities-in-us-plans-to-ditch-police-force?lite

 

[Busybody]

they should do away with the statisticians as well

if they cant keep stats on the crimes

there is no crime

potemkin village 2012

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My Name is Earl

 

[koalabear]

If they would just model their departments after Chicago's.........

 

[Busybody]

all crime can be blamed on those that keep teh stats

get rid of THEM

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If they would just model their departments after Chicago's.........

... or Oakland.

 

[koalabear]

Indy did that years ago and replaced the cops with the Mexican militia. Now you can get any drugs you want plus some really great burritos.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

They have given up the streets of Camden to gangs. In Trenton the gangs told the police to pull officers walking a beat off the streets or they would be killed.