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Please name the city. In the known examples of this practice, it has had positive effects, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/camden-newark-

Please name the city. In the known examples of this practice, it has had positive effects, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/camden-newark-new-jersey-police-reform https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/camden-newar... > Camden and Newark, two cities in New Jersey, are among those that have been held up as powerful examples of positive change. The two cities have seen structural reforms to their police departments and a steep drop in crime, both within the communities and inflicted by the police.

nerdponx 6y ago
Camden didn't "abolish" their police force. It was rolled up into the police force of the surrounding county, along with some other changes in how the department was run and organized Clearly it was an effective structural reform. But it does not constitute "police abolition" in a way that would be meaningful to police abolitionists. And Newark didn't even do that. They just started actually investigating police abuses and imposing actual consequences for abuse. If anything, it goes to show that you don't need police abolition to make an improvement. But you do need to make changes that amount to more than lip service.