The Blueprint: How Camden Police Reclaimed A City - staging
(ap) β to scott thomson, changing the culture of policing in america is a relatively simple process.
Webaccording to police department data, camdenβs annual homicide tally has fallen from 67 in 2012 to 25 last year;
Webthomson led a tumultuous police department makeover in camden, new jersey β a poor city of mostly brown and black residents just across the river from.
Are now looking to camden as a model.
And assault with a gun.
Robberies from 755 to 304;
Webhistorically one of the country's most impoverished and violent cities, camden, new jersey, has been working to rebuild its police force from the ground up,.
Webas a movement grows in american cities and suburbs to overhaul police departments and confront their long records of racially unjust, violent enforcement,.
Itβs just not an easy one.