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What can Baltimore learn about policing from Camden, New Jersey?

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What can Baltimore learn about policing from Camden, New Jersey?

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

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In part 9 of On the Watch, WYPR’s OSI-funded series on community policing, reporter Mary Rose Madden goes to Camden, New Jersey, where homicides have dropped 24% in recent years, after the police department was disbanded and re-formed with a community policing model.

Madden walks the beat with Camden cops to see how attitudes and practices have changed – she records as minor potential infractions are ignored and cops express concern for people’s safety – along with technology.

Ultimately, Madden explores whether the changes in Camden, a city of 77,000 people, are relevant to Baltimore, a city of 620,000, and finds that budget issues and Baltimore’s police union, which has been hostile to reform, are among the barriers.

Listen to the whole report here. 

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