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18 Jan 2011 21:14

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U.S.: Protip: Don’t go to Camden expecting the police to help you

  • bad Camden, NJ, a city that was once home to Walt Whitman, has the second-highest crime rate in the entire country.
  • worse The formerly industrial city, in steep decline, has a massive budget shortfall – it’s roughly $26.5 million in the red.
  • worser To solve the worse problem, they chose the cut the police force by half, making the bad problem worser. source