A Tale Of Two Camdens
Camden is a city of 70,000 people in Southern New Jersey. A few years ago, it had one of the highest rates of crime in the country. And its police department was notoriously corrupt.
So in 2013, Camden, New Jersey defunded its police. The county dissolved the police department and rebuilt it from scratch. Since then, crime has plummeted, police-community relations have drastically improved and many cities in the U.S. are now looking to Camden as a model for how to improve their own police departments.
Still, many residents of Camden say the numbers aren't telling the whole story. Today on the Indicator, we look at what happened in the city of Camden, what changed and what didn't.
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