Newark New Jersey Defund Police

Now seven years later the citys crime has dropped by close to half.

Cricket jersey hoodies. Camden new jersey dissolved its police department and replaced it after corruption rendered the existing agency unfixable. Defund the police has been a rally cry in the streets but even many of those who are calling to defund the police acknowledge that every community is different and there isnt a one size fits. The mayor of new jerseys largest city on thursday labeled ongoing efforts to defund or abolish police departments a bourgeois liberal solution for addressing systemic problems that extend far beyond city police departmentsi think its kind of a knee jerk reaction said newark mayor ras baraka a progressive democrat during a.

The story of camden a city of about 74000 outside phila. The progressive mayor of newark nj pushed back thursday on calls to defund police forces across the country arguing the movement was a bourgeois liberal answer for deeper issues of. In the course of the last two weeks support for a movement to defund the police has spread across the nation.

The mayors of new jerseys two most populous cities arent backing the defund the police movement currently sweeping the democrat party. Protesters liberal groups and many in the media have embraced the notion that the answer to police violence is to get rid of the police. A once crime riddled new jersey city disbanded its police department and formed a new one in 2013 and this is what happened.

And you agree to receive the latest news offers from the new jersey jewish news and. Proponents of defunding or disbanding police departments are lauding camden new jersey as a model for the nation. The mayor of new jerseys largest city on thursday labeled ongoing efforts to abolish police departments a bourgeois liberal solution for addressing systemic problems that extend far.

In fact they spoke out on thursday to criticize it.