This is a scary place - it is the result of Government 'Help' - Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department

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I've said it many times and it is still truer than ever, the streets in Camden look like the pictures taken of Berlin in May 1945. Berlin may have been safer then, at least the people had a fighting chance.

Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department amid budget woes | Fox News

Perry Chiaramonte

Published August 26, 2012

Crime-ridden Camden, New Jersey - often referred to as the most dangerous city in the United States—is getting rid of its police department.

In the latest example of a cash-strapped municipality taking drastic measures to deal with swollen public sector liabilities and shrinking budgets, the city plans to disband its 460-member police department and replace it with a non-union “Metro Division” of the Camden County Police. Backers of the plan say it will save millions of dollars for taxpayers while ensuring public safety, but police unions say it is simply a way to get out of collective bargaining with the men and women in blue.

“This is definitely a form of union-busting," Camden Fraternal Order of Police President John Williamson told FoxNews.com. “This method is unproven and untested, to put your faith in an agency that doesn’t even [yet] exist.”

Camden County Mayor Dana Redd has said layoffs of the city’s police force will begin by the end of the month.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/24/camden-nj-to-reboot-police-department-by-new-year/#ixzz24kjP57Ib