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Gone: This officer will lose his job at the end of the year when the Camden Police Department is disbanded
dailymail.co.uk / by Michael Zennie / PUBLISHED:15:48 EST, 26 August 2012 | UPDATED: 07:24 EST, 27 August 2012
- Forty-one homicides already this year could beat record of 58 from 1995
- City’s police to be replaced by those from county to save money
- Almost half of residents unemployed and streets are run by drug gangs
The deadliest city in America is disbanding its entire police force and firing 270 cops in an effort to deal with a massive budget crunch.
There have been a staggering 41 homicides in Camden, New Jersey, already this year but the Camden Police Department will be replaced with a force run by the county, which supporters say will cost significantly less and allow more officers on the streets.
Some citizens worry, though that the new officers, many of them from the county police force, won’t be prepared for the tough, violent work of patrolling a dense urban city.
The police union says the force, which will not be unionized, is simply a union-busting move that is meant to get out of contracts with current employees. Any city officers that are hired to the county force will lose the benefits they had on the unionized force.
No matter the political wrangling, the murder rate in Camden, a decaying city of 77,000, continues to skyrocket.
