Breaking News...Camden, NJ fires all of its Zookeepers

[Kazuya Mishima]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08 ... latestnews

[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.

[baffled]

They'll have cops. Just not these cops. And maybe not for a while.

[Blaidd Drwg]

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.

[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.

[Turdacious]

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.

[Holland Oates]

There's a good chance their PD is too large. It happens.