29June 2020
The following is an excerpt from a recent NewsMax short article written by A. Benjamin Mannes. For the full article, click here.”As an extreme motion to defund police companies acquires authenticity among Democratic politicians at the federal, state and local levels; Camden, New Jersey has actually been an example of' disband the police'to'improve'crime rates. Unfortunately, this example isn't real. The truth is, Camden didn't reduce their authorities existence, they more than doubled it by producing a County Police company in 2013 to absorb the responsibilities of the city's local cops department
. In 2012, Camden was probably the most harmful city in America. In spite of only being 10 square miles in size, Camden set a record for having 67 murders in 2012, a national per capita high for a city of just 77,000 locals. In contrast, Seattle had a population of 636,495 and 26 murders in 2012. Camden's abnormally high criminal activity rate can be credited to the fact that it was likewise one of America's poorest cities, with a tax base that might not afford an authorities company big enough to resolve it's criminal activity rate. Low tax profits and a half-century of economic decline resulted in budget cuts that impacted essential city services. In 2012, attrition rates had left the city police with only 175 officers, with as little as 12 officers to patrol the entire city sometimes.
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