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"With a crime rate of 47 per one thousand residents, Camden has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the sm

• graeme 6y ago
  To make an actual comparison, you’d need a before/after of crime rates there and also a comparison to rate of change in similar towns which didn’t reorganize their force.
• bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  so I guess this is the lies, damned lies, and statistics part of the thread. Because the question should have been what it was like before, hey https://www.tapinto.net/towns/camden/sections/law-and-justice/articles/camden-sees-crime-drop-over-past-decade https://www.tapinto.net/towns/camden/sections/law-and-justic... you're right! It looks like it did work our rather well.
• jeffbee 6y ago
  Luckily we have the FBI uniform crime report to inform us. In 2018, Camden had 16 violent crimes per 1000 residents. Ten years earlier, it had 23 per 1000. Murders fell from 54 to 23. In adjacent Philadelphia, violent crime fell from 14 to 9 per 1000, the same ratio as Camden enjoyed. Therefore it stands to reason that Camden's violent, corrupt police force was not necessary to reduce crime. This is consistent with other evidence that aggressive, violent police tactics are not associated with lower crime.
• olegious 6y ago
  Lazy post on my part, saw the current terrible numbers and didn't bother looking at the past.