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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Case study here, people.
“So what’s happening in this city, which for many years has been deemed among the dangerous in America? Thomson, who took the helm of the Camden police force in 2008, says the biggest factor may have been the change in structure of the department itself. In 2013, the Camden Police Department was disbanded, reimagined, and born again as the Camden County Police Department, with more officers at lower pay—and a strategic shift toward “community policing.”

That meant focusing on rebuilding trust between the community and their officers.

“For us to make the neighborhood look and feel the way everyone wanted it to, it wasn’t going to be achieved by having a police officer with a helmet and a shotgun standing on a corner,” Thomson said. Now, he wants his officers “to identify more with being in the Peace Corps than being in the Special Forces.”
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crime-in-camden/549542/[/quote]

Camden abolished the police force so they could bust the union and pay the officers less $$. They actually ended up with more police officers.

I actually agree with busting the unions, but not for pay reasons. The unions stop the firing of bad cops. [/quote]

As someone who supports unions, I definitely want to see reforms to police unions because they insulate cops from the consequences of their actions. Some of the rhetoric around union busting should give other unionized professions pause. We should be careful when our unions become infallible and too powerful.[/quote]

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