[ExI] Cory Massimino on advocating police abolition

[John Clark]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 7:05 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> The idea of abolishing the police seems to be having something of a
> surge in popularity,*
>

Defunding the police is not the same as abolishing the police. Camden New
Jersey defunded the police seven years ago and it turned out well. Back
then Camden had the highest murder rate in the country and police
corruption was so firmly entrenched that reform was impossible, and because
of super powerful police unions it cost over $182,000 per officer so they
only had 175 of them. Camden decided to start from scratch and fired the
entire police force and started a new one; if an officer wanted to stay on
the force he had to submit a job application just like everybody else. The
move broke the powerful police union so now it only cost $99,600 to hire an
officer, and so there are now over 400 of them. The result of all of this
is today the murder rate is only a third what it was seven years ago before
the police were defunded, and the Relationship between the police and the
black community is much improved, the current police chief of Camden
actually marched with the black lives matter people.

John K Clark
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