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Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:34 pm
by Kazuya Mishima
Re: Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:33 pm
by Pinky
Despite all of the well-deserved bashing that cops receive here and elsewhere, the evidence actually does suggest that more cops leads to less crime.
Good luck, Camden.
Re: Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:44 pm
by baffled
They'll have cops. Just not these cops. And maybe not for a while.
Re: Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:29 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
Pinky wrote:Despite all of the well-deserved bashing that cops receive here and elsewhere, the evidence actually does suggest that more cops leads to less crime.
Good luck, Camden.
Hmmmm...when I rolled through Camden in the spring I had no idea it was such an epic shithole. Frankly, felt sketchier in Philly.
Re: Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:10 am
by Holland Oates
This is not a quality of law enforcement issue. This is economics. The city doesn't give a fuck about providing quality protection it only cares about its budget.
Re: Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:26 am
by Turdacious
Ed Zachary wrote:This is not a quality of law enforcement issue. This is economics. The city doesn't give a fuck about providing quality protection it only cares about its budget.
Difficult to have a quality budget with a low tax base and a high poverty rate:
According to the 2005 ACS, 44% of the people in Camden live in poverty. This is the highest percentage of people living in
poverty for cities with over 65,000 people. However, the 90% confidence interval* for Camden shows that the range of possible values for Camden overlaps with those of other cities.
http://www.camconnect.org/datalogue/poverty_handout.pdf
My guess is that the recent recession has hit Camden harder than the surrounding areas.
Re: Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:38 am
by Holland Oates
There's a good chance their PD is too large. It happens.