[ExI] communism/authoritarianism

[John Clark]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 3:00 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> There are a few cities that have 'defunded' their police. Camden, NJ
> did, though that was years ago.*


That was in 2012. The Camden police were notoriously corrupt and the city
council got fed up, so they fired most of the officers and reduced the
police budget by tens of millions of dollars and put the money saved into
affordable housing, addiction treatment, and mental health services. Since
2012 violent crime in Camden has been reduced by 42% and the number of
official complaints about police using excessive force have fallen from 64
to 3.

John K Clark



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