This is an article from the New York Times about what’s been happening in Camden. New Jersey since they laid off half of their police force. It’s pretty much what you would expect…

Callers to 911 who report things like home burglaries or car break-ins are asked to file a report over the phone or at police headquarters; officers rarely respond in person. “If it doesn’t need a gun and a badge at that location,” officers are not sent, the city’s police chief, J. Scott Thomson, said last week.

Pretty soon It will be unless it’s a murder we’re not coming.

Then again what do you expect from a city where 58% of properties in the city do not generate any tax revenue. A city can’t be run that way and Camden is such a third world country that no one will ever move into the city. As I’ve said before the so-called waterfront renovation has been a decades-long failure.

Camden has been abandoned to the criminals and it will never be reclaimed.