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6. The police are the cause ultimately
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 01:24 PM
Aug 10

Currupt cops work with criminals and use them as pawns. Camden fired their entire police force and only rehired select officers they trusted. The results have been wildly successful.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/camden-newark-new-jersey-police-reform

On October 29, 2012, the FBI announced Camden was ranked first in violent crime per capita of cities with over 50,000 residents, surpassing Flint, Michigan.[34] That year, there were 67 homicides in Camden.

By 2019, homicides had declined to 25, a 63% decrease. This coincided with wide-ranging reforms by the new police department.[10]

By 2022, overall crime rates had declined even further still, although the murder rate had increased slightly, to its 2016 levels, after falling in both 2020 and 2021, as the city (and country more generally) reopened following the height of both the COVID-19 pandemic, and persistent tensions surrounding the 2020 presidential election; the overall count of non-violent crimes committed within city limits also returned to its 2019 levels by the end of 2022, somewhat offsetting the continued drop in violent crime in the city generally under its new police force that kept overall crime rates near 50-year lows.[35][36][37]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_County_Police_Department

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