Camden rehiring cops amid surge in crime

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CAMDEN, NJ -- Mayor Dana Redd yesterday revealed a plan to rehire 50 of the 167 cops laid off in January -- in a city where crime has since spiked.

The state government is providing $2.5 million to bring back the cops and 15 of 68 laid-off firefighters through June 30, the mayor said, adding that she expects to adopt a city budget, effective July 1, that will make the rehires permanent.

"It's time for all of us to assert leadership and work together on a new approach to combine and maximize public-safety resources, eliminate redundancies and inefficiencies, and provide a long-term solution," Christie said in a statement.

Well, it didnt take too long for the government to say "okay, we actually need these people." I think it was a month or 2 ago when Camden cut half of its police force. Since then, crime has spiked.

Just thought this would be something interesting to post.

Thanks for posting this I live in camden Nj and I hadnt heard about this yet but it is needed the city has gotten significantly worse since the cops got fired

They should pass a mandatory gun carrying law like one city did...

It is proven to lower crime statistics.... especially in prevention....

'the only thing that will save us from the bureaucracy is it's inefficiency"



now i'm not so sure


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