"Philly burned" -- who told you that? There was widespread looting unfortunately, but only a couple isolated fires (would've preferred zero, but it's very misleading to say the city burned).
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My story on Camden, two years after it dismantled its police for e and started over. Philly burned this week; just across the river Camden did not.https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/nyregion/camden-turns-around-with-new-police-force.html?smid=tw-share …
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To be fair, Philly also burns every time one of their sports team wins something.
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So they have nothing to worry about. (Lose)win-win.
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This is a really good article which promotes a community policing model. I like the fact they got the actual police on the streets and the stuff civilians could do they do. At the end of the day it is still a police department.
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It’s a good and encouraging story, but a 60% increase in officers is seems like a far cry from what the “defund”‘crowd is pushing
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Well maybe, although the Defund movement is more about the types of equipment (military surplus, riot gear, rubber bullets) than it is number of personnel.
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Yes! Thank you! I don’t know why more people don’t know about this when they freak out about defunding the police.
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When I bring up Camden, most people still do the "murder capital USA!" line. Just easy to skip over a small city doing this, I suppose.
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Did Newark or any other major city in NJ burn? While the reforms were unique, as someone who worked there 2014-6, I would never say Camden was a good example for reform of any kind.
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I mean this style of policing was introduced in 2014 so I think it's a little crazy to expect instant change. The fact is that 2016 is 4 years ago and things have absolutely gotten better and are trending in the right direction.
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