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Obama Just Called This "Rotting, Decaying Hellhole" A Symbol Of "Promise For The Nation"

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Speaking in Camden, New Jersey, President Obama just uttered the following Detroit-esque words of doom:

  • *OBAMA SAYS CAMDEN IS SYMBOL OF PROMISE FOR NATION

We discussed Camden in 2012, 2013, and 2014... and had a different opinion.

There's this...

 

And this...

All over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair.  Of course the most famous example of this is Detroit.  At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per capita income in the entire country.  But now it has become a rotting, decaying hellhole that the rest of the planet laughs at.  And of course Detroit is far from alone.  There are hundreds of other U.S. cities that are suffering a similar fate.  In this article, the focus is going to be on Camden, New Jersey, but the truth is that there are lots of other "Detroits" and "Camdens" all over the nation.  Jobs and businesses are leaving our cities at a staggering rate, and what is being left behind is poverty, crime and extreme desperation.

Earlier this month, Rolling Stone published an article that took a hard look at the nightmare conditions that exist in Camden.  A city that once made Campbell's soup and some of this nation's most famous warships is now a national disgrace.  The following are six of the best quotes out of that article...

-"In September, its last supermarket closed, and the city has been declared a "food desert" by the USDA. The place is literally dying, its population having plummeted from above 120,000 in the Fifties to less than 80,000 today."

 

-"Their home is a city with thousands of abandoned houses but no money to demolish them, leaving whole blocks full of Ninth Ward-style wreckage to gather waste and rats."

 

-"With legal business mostly gone, illegal business took hold. Those hundreds of industries have been replaced by about 175 open-air drug markets, through which some quarter of a billion dollars in dope moves every year."

 

-"On January 18th, 2011, the city laid off 168 of its 368 police officers, kicking off a dramatic, years-long, cops-versus-locals, house-to-house battle over a few square miles of North American territory that should have been national news, but has not been, likely because it took place in an isolated black and Hispanic ghost town."

 

-"After the 2011 layoffs, police went into almost total retreat. Drug dealers cheerfully gave interviews to local reporters while slinging in broad daylight."

 

-"The carnage left Camden's crime rate on par with places like Haiti after its 2010 earthquake, and with other infamous Third World hot spots, as police officials later noticed to their dismay when they studied U.N. statistics."

You can read the rest of the article right here.

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And finally this...

America's Deadliest And Poorest City Set To Disband Its Entire Police Force Over Budget Crisis

While the stock market in the US continues to surge (if not so much in China where the composite is back to 2009 lows) as the relentless liquidity tsunami makes its way into stocks, and other Fed frontrunning instruments, and only there, reality for everyone else refuses to wait. Last week we saw reality striking in Greece, where a section of Athens literally shut down after it ran out of all cash. Today, reality comes to the US, and specifically its poorest city, Camden, which is a twofer, doubling down also as America's deadliest city. It turns out Camden is about to become even deadliest-er, as its police force is set to be disbanded following a budget crisis in this effectively insolvent city.

And here are some pictures of just what Dante would see in his modern descent into America.

Shocking crimes: A Camden police officer stands in the doorway of a home on August 22 in New Jersey's most impoverished city, where authorities say a 2-year-old boy was decapitated, apparently by his mother

Shocking crimes: A Camden police officer stands in the doorway of a home on August 22 in New Jersey's most impoverished city, where authorities say a 2-year-old boy was decapitated, apparently by his mother

Fight: A supporter of the Camden Police Department speaks during a hearing before the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee, in Trenton

Fight: A supporter of the Camden Police Department speaks during a hearing before the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee, in Trenton

Forces dwindling: There are now 270 police officers in Camden, down from 450 in 2005 and 368 the day before the layoffs

Forces dwindling: There are now 270 police officers in Camden, down from 450 in 2005 and 368 the day before the layoffs

Run down: Crack houses have sprung up amid the boarded-up factories and burned out houses in Camden

Run down: Crack houses have sprung up amid the boarded-up factories and burned out houses in Camden

 

Abject poverty: The unemployment rate in Camden skyrocketed from less than 9 per cent to more than 20 per cent during the recession

Abject poverty: The unemployment rate in Camden skyrocketed from less than 9 per cent to more than 20 per cent during the recession

Gone: Camden police officers will lose their jobs at the end of the year when the department is disbanded

Gone: Camden police officers will lose their jobs at the end of the year when the department is disbanded

 

Decay: The Camden police have struggled to keep up with the soaring murder rate, amid layoffs and budget cuts

Decay: The Camden police have struggled to keep up with the soaring murder rate, amid layoffs and budget cuts

Decay: Soaring unemployment and the flight of thousands of city residents has resulted in urban blight spreading across the city

Decay: Soaring unemployment and the flight of thousands of city residents has resulted in urban blight spreading across the city

Run-down: Residents look out over the gutter city where almost half of people are unemployed

Run-down: Residents look out over the gutter city where almost half of people are unemployed

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Inspired America?

 

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Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:10 | 6106537 Sudden Debt
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And soon the people cry for the army to step in and 1 year later you won’t see the difference with countries like Columbia, Venezuela or even the most run down African countries.

America is sliding to 3rd world status, just like most south American countries.

Argentinia used to be richer than America for example, look where they are. And once you slide down, you may be lucky if in 100 years 1/3 o the prosperity returns.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:14 | 6106560 FreeShitter
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Pretty much every major city >5 million is a third world/ghetto culture. Once the shit hits, its going to look like border town may-he-co.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:30 | 6106660 Sudden Debt
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True, I also know a lot of big cites in Europe where there’s a part where the Mad Max lifestyle is normal.

and a lot of these cultures only show when it gets dark.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:51 | 6106788 Thick Willy
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Western European cities are a children's playground compared to American cities.  You Europeans have no idea what you're talking about.  That's why so many of you end up dead when you visit America and its "glorious" cities.  You have NO street smarts whatsoever.

 

Tell me the worst part of the worst Western European city and I'll go there within 2 months, walk around for an entire day and night, and report back my results.  I guarantee you nothing happens.  In America?  Well, I wouldn't take this challenge even with kevlar, an AR-15, and 3 friends with me.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:09 | 6106882 Monty Burns
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You're partially correct. When my son was working in NY as a student his friend was mugged by four pavement apes and beaten to within an inch of his life.  Could very easily have been my son.  So yes, USA cities are far worse but places like Malmo, Marseilles, Berlin and Brussels have areas totally over-run by Africans and Muslims from which you would be unlikely to emerge unscathed.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:21 | 6107175 Thick Willy
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Wrong.  They are so used to dealing with pussy ass effeminate pacifist Europeans that they don't know what to do when confronted by someone who isn't afraid of them.  Berlin?  Seriously?  And Brussels?

Yea, dangerous places to be if you're a woman.  Wait, that was uncalled for.  Berlin isn't dangerous, even for women.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 05:30 | 6108819 Monty Burns
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Well American Whites haven't exactly been the Klan redux now, have they? As far as I can see there's been no reaction at all to the undeclared war on them by blacks, White Girl Bleed A Lot and all that.  Just like us Europeans you're sitting back and letting the vibrants kick you around.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 06:32 | 6108863 Refuse-Resist
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That is true but I don't think things will remain in the current state (whites not fighting back) for too much longer.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 13:01 | 6110170 Kobe Beef
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It's too late to talk it out, and too early to break out the flamethrowers and shipping containers. It's coming, and there's no stopping it.

The Soviet central bank started its version of QE in the 70's. The USSA is catching up right about now. The reason I mention this is because when the all-powerful State fails, there will be nothing holding the combatant races apart. It will be house to house and city to country. Competing bands of predators butchering bystanders. Your skin will be your uniform. Civil War II will make Yugoslavia and Lebanon look like a picnic, unless one or the other group of Whites take up the Eradication Option early and often.

As bad as it is, Camden is only a stop along the way. There's still a State and Federal government keeping the cannibals in cages, lashing the workers at their wheels, and bemusing the people with that warm, blue TV glow. These things too will end.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 07:07 | 6108915 Thick Willy
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Is that really the case?  Those attacks happen mostly in the North Eastern cities or West Coast cities full of Leftist morons and people who didn't see a black person other than on TV until they were in college.  There was a thread on here the other day and I said (when I am in the US) I carried a pistol and a knife, and am physically prepared to defend myself and I still didn't let black males come within 10 feet of me on the streets if I could possibly avoid it.

It's true.  Guess how many issues I had with them?  0.  Only had to pull my pistol once on some dude who decided he didn't want to fight anymore when he realized he was about to die.

Only idiot brainwashed Leftists are gonna walk right past a group of young black males in an alleyway.  Doesn't matter if it's broad day light or otherwise.  Only a brainwashed Leftist moron is going to decide to drive his Audi into Baltimore and get drunk on Halloween and walk around by himself.  Only idiot brainwashed Leftists dress up like prostitutes and go walking around by themselves at night in a city full of 3rd world muslims and blacks.

These people are animals.  They are predators.  They have a predator's instincts.  They know who can they victimize and who they cannnot.  It is your choice to either be a victim or not.  So while I have sympathy for their victims and would like to be able to live in peace and civil society among white people, you have to recognize reality for what it is.  Being a victim is a choice.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:23 | 6107187 Ward cleaver
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That's a racist story. According to the MSM, only violence is white police shooting A student Afro Americans. If u don't believe me ask Al or Jesse.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 18:19 | 6107404 Hyjinx
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Definitely true.  I've been to some "bad" parts of cities in Europe and it isn't anything.  I don't pride ourselves on it but Euros really have no idea what that is about.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 13:04 | 6110186 Kobe Beef
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Luckily, their Dual-Citizen Ministers are there to light them along the path.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:33 | 6106665 divedivedive
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. dup

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:31 | 6106668 divedivedive
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Columbia no longer fits your view of it.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:05 | 6106866 Make_Mine_A_Double
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Correct - I would take Bogota or Cartgena or Santa Marta in a heartbeat over any USSA East or Mid West 'city'.

Colombia is boom town right now. Last time I was in Bogota there were more boom cranes than in Dubai.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:10 | 6106887 divedivedive
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Pero muy caro, no ?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:42 | 6107032 Make_Mine_A_Double
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Yeah, a little steep but not much worse than say Miami.

Cartegena seeing lots of Murikan retirees - since Panama is getting spendy now.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:53 | 6106802 Thick Willy
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America is full of 3rd world people with sub-human IQs so why should anyone expect anything other than a 3rd world society?  The best America can hope for in the near future is a Brazil like society where whites and lighter skinned mixed race people lord over masses of dark skinned sub-humans.  Then comes India.  Then later, South Africa and the slaughter or anyone remotely white.  Having guns didn't save the South Africans, it won't save Americans.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:59 | 6106831 Ward cleaver
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And with the continuing importation of Democrat voters, I'm sure it's going to get better.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 06:33 | 6108864 Refuse-Resist
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IKR, if we just had some more republican voters it would be all unicorns, rainbows, and freedom!

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 06:34 | 6108865 Refuse-Resist
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Good post. I see we have a couple of third worlder sub 80 IQ people (or their pro-diversity tribe advocates) here downvoting the truth.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:01 | 6106843 Monty Burns
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Why would it be othewise? The real American population, the stock that made the country what it was, is being replaced by Turd World vibrants who made their own countries poverty-stricken hell holes.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:11 | 6106543 Dr. Engali
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Fundamentally transforming America. Forward bitchez!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:12 | 6106548 HandyCrapper
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42 voting wards in Philly were 100% for Obama last election. Camden?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:15 | 6106567 NoDebt
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52 in Philly.  But who's counting?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:18 | 6106587 Seek_Truth
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I always point that out when anyone doubts that votes are rigged.

Diebold, baby!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:59 | 6106828 Monty Burns
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I heard he got 120% of the vote there.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 18:52 | 6107541 Jstanley011
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Dead Democrats have every right to have their voices heard too, bub.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 13:07 | 6110199 Kobe Beef
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Yeah, what are you, necrophobic? That's really insensitive. Wow. just wow.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:22 | 6107180 Cruel Aid
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Uhh, 110+% in some districts, lol

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 22:58 | 6108388 Promethus
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Camden was 113% for Obama.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:13 | 6106557 Ajax_USB_Port_R...
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Camden needs a biker gang to whip that place into shape.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:17 | 6106577 Niall Of The Ni...
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Nothing short of a category 5 hurricane that forced Camden's feral niggers to move on stands more than a snowball's chance in hell of whipping Camden into shape.

That, or forcible deportation to Liberia.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:03 | 6106850 Farqued Up
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Has anyone consulted Liberia?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:19 | 6106892 falconflight
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Won't the Crips/Bloods/MS-13 do?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:17 | 6106575 Ajax_USB_Port_R...
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"SYMBOL OF PROMISE FOR NATION"

Didn't Obama say the same thing about Solyndra?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:50 | 6106782 lakecity55
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Bath House: "Camden is the future model for all of America!"

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:21 | 6106600 Coletrane
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the future of America.

Indeed.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:20 | 6106601 WorkingPawn
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We'll all be living in Camden once he and Hillary are done with us.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:21 | 6106608 22winmag
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Snipes: We're safe around here.

 

Connery: You call this safe?

 

Snipes: Rough neighborhoods may be America's last advantage.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:25 | 6106630 GeezerGeek
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From the article: "With legal business mostly gone, illegal business took hold. Those hundreds of industries have been replaced by about 175 open-air drug markets, through which some quarter of a billion dollars in dope moves every year."

From this I infer that there is a tremendous amount of cash flowing. How is that all going to work if cash is banned? The drug trade seems to be the only part of Camden's economy that is doing well. Can't have that now, can we! Ban Cash!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:28 | 6106631 GeezerGeek
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From NJ originally, and having visited Camden long ago, this is saddening. And yet the opposite end of the state, where I grew up, is quite well off.

On average then, I suppose, NJ is doing okay.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:57 | 6106819 Monty Burns
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I can be a bit more specific here. The White parts are ok, the black parts are, well, like black parts everywhere.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:28 | 6106973 Big Corked Boots
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Prior to the financial crisis, they used to refer to Somerset, Hunterdon and Morris counties as "The Wealth Belt."

It's taken a step back from that but it's still pretty fat.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 18:45 | 6107508 Cornfedbloodstool
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My 1997 house in Chery Hill had 4k in real estate taxes. Probably 9 k now. The kids with nose rings can read though.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:25 | 6106632 homebody
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Build a wall around it and send all the criminals there - like escape from New York.  I guarantee the crime rate would go down without a militarized police force.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:25 | 6106633 HellFish
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Do the lazy illiterate shitheads who live there or the Democrat government they vote for again and again deserve some of the responsibility for the failure or was it just external forces?

 

I think you know the answer.

 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:25 | 6106635 Coletrane
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no supermarkets ?

 

 

just WHAT are these "people" supposed to loot if some cracka cop decides to go all gun ablazin on anotha brotha

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:56 | 6107302 Monty Burns
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All those local libraries.  Da bruddas can't wait to get dare hands on all dem books.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:30 | 6106664 Freewheelin Franklin
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The "Dome" is what we used to call it. I used to buy all my drugs there, right out in the middle of the street. All the Camden cops were on the take. They'd walk right up on the set and get paid out in the open. 

But they raided and shut down the Wheels of Soul clubhouse because they wouldn't pay. They used to keep their block the safest in the city.

But this is lowest.

 http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/14/pf/camden-homeless-tent-cities/

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:58 | 6106822 poland spring
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Oh snap, its been a couple years since I went to that clubhouse.  Didn't realize it was gone.  I still go to the one in West Philly.  ZH is everywhere.  I don't like it when people compare Philly to Camden because Philly is miles ahead.
Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:08 | 6106879 Thick Willy
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Philly is the worst city I have ever been to.  It is a nightmarish shit hole and the only place I've seen Black Panther rallies on the street preaching the extermination of all white people.  Baltimore is better and safer than Philly.  If there are worse places than Philly, I'm glad I've never been there.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:16 | 6106910 poland spring
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Philly is way better than Camden.  Philly is growing by leaps and bounds, construction is everywhere. Never had riots like B-more. Top notch universities here: UPenn, Drexel, Lasalle, Temple, St. Joe's, Villanova (suburb).  Top notch sports teams, uh well, scratch that for now. And for 2015:

The New York Times ranked the city #3 (the highest-ranked U.S. city) on its coveted list of “52 Places to Go in 2015” ; Condé Nast Traveler said that the city is “rising through the ranks as a U.S. shopping destination;” and Travel + Leisure declared it among “11 of the world’s most compelling food capitals.”

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:22 | 6106945 falconflight
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The NY Slimes?  I'm all in!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:45 | 6107053 falconflight
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Philly isn't called Filthadelphia for nothing.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 18:09 | 6107359 TeethVillage88s
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Philly only 331 Murders in 2012, and 880 Reported Rapes in pop of 1.5 Million. 9,000 Assaults and 8,000 Robberies.

Camden 67 Murders, 74 Rapes, 1,100 Assaults, 800 Robberies in pop of less than 77,000... sounds like Camden is worse, but Philly probably has other cities in the Metro Area.

But Philly has places to work, shop, and play... so has to be better.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 09:17 | 6109332 FrankDrakman
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Philly only 331 Murders in 2012, and 880 Reported Rapes in pop of 1.5 Million.

Toronto rape stats are hard to find, but in 2012, 54 murders in a pop of 2.6 million. So, 50% more people, 15% of the murders, and on a per capita basis, you're roughly 100 times more likely to be murdered in Philly than Toronto. 

Now, both cities are about 50% white (Toronto 49%, Philly 45%) so it isn't because they are mostly white cities. The difference is Toronto is 8.5% black, Philly is 44%. All of Toronto's Chinese, South Asian, and Latin immigrants seem to have families, hold jobs, and generally behave themselves.  Philly blacks? Apparently, not so much...

 


Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:17 | 6106911 poland spring
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Philly is way better than Baltimore.  Philly is growing by leaps and bounds, construction is everywhere. Never had riots like B-more. Top notch universities here: UPenn, Drexel, Lasalle, Temple, St. Joe's, Villanova (suburb).  Top notch sports teams, uh well, scratch that for now. And for 2015:

The New York Times ranked the city #3 (the highest-ranked U.S. city) on its coveted list of “52 Places to Go in 2015” ; Condé Nast Traveler said that the city is “rising through the ranks as a U.S. shopping destination;” and Travel + Leisure declared it among “11 of the world’s most compelling food capitals.”

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 18:52 | 6107539 Cornfedbloodstool
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Philly is the blackest city I have ever been to besides Nassau. I mean there is niggas everywere.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 18:53 | 6107546 Jstanley011
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It's a shit hole.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 00:41 | 6108610 Government need...
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Think of it as God's training.  From your experience here on Earth, you'll be able to realize you're heading to hell . . . if you start seeing packs of pavement apes right after you stop breathing. . .  

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 20:26 | 6107864 MeBizarro
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I live in the Philly area and you mean the 2-3 old Black Power geezers who rant and rave either by the Convention Center or a few other places in town?  Intimidating hardly.  Just the joke when the Fox News runs its 'Black Panthers intimidating voters' story which seems to be like their 'Where is Phil' story on Groundhog's Day.  

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 00:42 | 6108611 Government need...
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There's a little pack of them niggas that used to rant near Times Square.  Their home base was up in Harlem on 125th street.  Strange place, that.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 20:26 | 6107866 MeBizarro
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I live in the Philly area and you mean the 2-3 old Black Power geezers who rant and rave either by the Convention Center or a few other places in town?  Intimidating hardly.  Just the joke when the Fox News runs its 'Black Panthers intimidating voters' story which seems to be like their 'Where is Phil' story on Groundhog's Day.  

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 20:42 | 6107910 MeBizarro
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Another American who never travels overseas.  I always hear 'this is the worst city ever' when I doubt they have even been to that part of the city or places where there is real and underending pockets of urban poverty like India, Brazil, etc.  

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 00:45 | 6108617 Government need...
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Shit, I was down in the DF looking at some neighborhoods that had just had local gas distribution installed.  Takes poverty to a whole different level.  In contrast, the parts of Sao Paulo I worked in were dangerous, but not nearly as poor.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:31 | 6106667 Coletrane
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holy shit....

 

 

dont google a street view of "downtown"camden........

 

 

why dont these people take care of anything ? 

 

 

fuck

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:44 | 6106747 msmith9962
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I tried to drag and drop the google maps guy onto a street there but he wouldn't go.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:48 | 6106766 lakecity55
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The google guy assigned to Camden Street View was shot and killed.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:54 | 6106804 Hulk
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I was virtually mugged in Camden !!!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 19:47 | 6107744 Atomizer
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The Google car was hacked and flipped 30 degrees before taking out a Mossad mosque. 

/sarc

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:53 | 6107292 Monty Burns
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+100  

LoL!!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:47 | 6106761 lakecity55
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They're niggers.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 06:55 | 6108899 kareninca
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I googled downtown camden, and it wasn't scary looking (although I'm sure it's scary):  it was deserted looking.  There were no people.  Very odd.  Maybe they drove around in the morning?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:33 | 6106675 mastersnark
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He means: "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

Probably.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:33 | 6106680 Dragon HAwk
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Use to stop for Coffee right across the bridge, get out of truck padlock the back doors and don't stay long enough to let them saw it off. what an adrenalin rush,  that place is Bad.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:34 | 6106689 Dixie Flatline
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Obama's style ion office is just like a youtube comment section.  The guy is just a troll.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:35 | 6106695 reTARD
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Some of those pictures of Camden almost look like Gaza.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:37 | 6106696 reTARD
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Internet hiccup. My ISP must have routed thru Camden. Double post removed.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:39 | 6106710 BenGazisurvivor
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I don't feel no wayz tired . Bush done datt

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:39 | 6106713 joseJimenez
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With this kind of news who needs sitcoms

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:19 | 6106927 Village-idiot
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Kind of like a "black comedy".

It's really sad and sick but you laugh anyway.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:42 | 6106720 Monty Burns
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Obama is right.  Camden IS the model for the New America. Just like LBJ was right when he said Detroit would be the model for the Great Society and Teddy Kennedy when claiming Patrick Chavis (Bakke case) was a 'perfect example' of how Affirmative Action worked. http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2009/12/new-surgeon-general.html

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:43 | 6106735 Bagbalm
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OBAMA SAYS CAMDEN IS SYMBOL OF PROMISE FOR NATION - That's not a promise that's a threat.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:35 | 6106995 frankly scarlet
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bagbalm; exactly right, a threat. the threat of poverty keeps the working and middle class supporting a system owned by the .01%... notice how the comments  here are all angry and upset,looking for someone, anyone to blame....that is the fear of being reduced to a Camden level when in actuallity world poverty could be eliminated with 1/10th the Pentagon budget. Poverty is kept as a real life  threat!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 21:19 | 6108039 John Wilmot
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"when in actuallity world poverty could be eliminated with 1/10th the Pentagon budget."

1. That is complete nonsense. The Pentagon budget this year is $495 billion, 10% of which is $49.5 billion. There are 1.2 billion people worldwide in abject poverty, so that comes to $41.25/year per person.

2. Have you not learned, as by the example of Camden, that stealing goodies from one group and giving to another does not solve the problem of poverty?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 22:17 | 6108256 falconflight
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And about 3 billion have been 'lifted' from poverty...through free enterrpise for the most part.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 22:21 | 6108263 John Wilmot
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Indeed

Sam Walton helped more poor people than all the welfare in the history of the world combined.

Actually, that's misleading - none of the welfare every really helped anyone.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:43 | 6106742 absente reo
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What a shame. This placed was named after a British chap, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden.

Camden Town in London was also named after him, amongst other places. 


Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:43 | 6106743 Salsipuedes
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I got back from Camden last month. I finished showering last week.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:46 | 6106753 lakecity55
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Hmmm, negroes and democrats...hmmm...is there a link here??

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 00:23 | 6108581 Government need...
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They feed each other.  One gives to the other political power . . . in exchange for food, shelter, a phone, healthcare, and 'special interest group' status.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:47 | 6106760 Tjeff1
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America's third world is spreading.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:56 | 6106814 froze25
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Maine and New Hampshire are looking great.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 00:50 | 6108626 Government need...
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The cold winters keep out the firearts, killer bees, and niggas.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:58 | 6107111 falconflight
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Actually, it is equality spreading across the rotting fruited plain.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:49 | 6106764 Prober
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You guys are VERY small-minded - of course it is "A Symbol Of Promise For The Nation" - to see it you must just simply think like a socialist thieving sociopath parasite:

Just look at all the entitlement vegetables proliferating there, whose votes can be reliably bought for generations with bama care and bama phones and bama freebies, ensuring the socialist regime will retain power forever.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:48 | 6106771 Atomizer
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I didn't read above story. Obama is going to Camden to reduce military police armament budget forecast. This is how I interpreted his visit. We just have to wait on how Obama spins this off. 

No guns is his wetdream. Not going to happen. 

ISIS flag, decoded

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/isis-flag-decoded-upside-down-guy...

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:49 | 6106773 vamper
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Well, atleast the president talked about them... my town will likely not get a mention until it has its own ferguson/baltimore blowup... but thats what you get when you push chicago housing tenants into a city an hour away.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:00 | 6106832 Atomizer
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I don't frequent the site often. Keep up the good work. 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 15:58 | 6106825 kchrisc
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Just more proof that pols and crats believe in nothing, but only utter what they think the sheeple desire to hear--lies.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

Pols are to faith, as shit is to food.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:11 | 6106890 Atomizer
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Kinda like the progessive lame stream media telling us ISIS was going to hack us on internet. Then we killed the commander of ISIS. Last propaganda was Obama is going to get killed. 

They cannot keep up with dead zone fearmongering tactics. Most are laughed at. NSA/DHS is hot on the preventative terrorist mode. Until they need new budgetary financing by taxpayer funding. 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:01 | 6106840 mrdenis
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meanwhile they pay next to nothing in property taxes so the rest of the stte taxpyers pick up the tab ,plus pay about 25K per student in schools that are paid for with other towns tax money .....another great success story from the democrats  

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:02 | 6106846 Thick Willy
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The primary psychological trait driving Obama and everything he does is his hatred of all white people and delusional, unrealistic view of black people.  Only a half white man raised in the tropical paradise of Hawaii by his rich white grand parents who grew up with mostly white friends could have the psychological make up of Obama.  He is truly a rare specimen and his handlers were lucky to find him.  Of course, he is just a meat puppet reading from a teleprompter and has no free will of his own, other than on the golf course.  But his seething hatred of white people allows him to carry out the orders of his masters without remorse.  After all, America is a product of white people, the thing Obama hates above all else - so he is perfectly happy to help destroy America (white people).

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:14 | 6106903 Prober
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"everything he does is his hatred of all white people"

Absolutely NOT true - the obomination hates ALL successful people, just happens to be circumstantial accident that most successful people are whitish.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:04 | 6106855 Crocodile
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Obama is right; it is a symbol of US cities; just not in the way it is painted...but that is how the game is played on the little minds of the sheeple.  Freedom is an illusion (look at the definition) and all are enslaved (see definition).

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Obama was against NAFTA before he was for it.  Obama was for militarization of police before he was against it...and so on.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:04 | 6106858 Shizzmoney
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Obama didn't have time to visit the juveniles, just the youth police corps.  How Soviet of him.

If I lived in Camden, I'd be worried.  More policing only means more VCs coming in to buy all of the property and have the residents replaced by hipster white folk.  

Google Chris Hedges and Camden.  You'll get the real story of the shithole in the middle of America's armpit.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:10 | 6106889 Thick Willy
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Must be too many Amish in Camden.  Those troublemakers.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:07 | 6106874 Last of the Mid...
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Looks like a decaying rotting shithole to me. Just sayin. No one left but the fed to bail it out now, and of course that wil happen numerous times before the reality of what is really going on sets in. 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:07 | 6106875 falconflight
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It is a great source of hope.  The Proletariat live in these cities, and they will be the future armies of freedom against you Merikan pukes...the neo- bourgeois.   

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 22:14 | 6108249 falconflight
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I guess that I should have placed a sarc tag.  Actually, I wasn't kidding, this is to what the Marxists aspire.  

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:07 | 6106876 falconflight
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Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:24 | 6106888 windcatcher
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The Russians or China or even al Qaeda didn’t need to drop a bomb on America to destroy us. The overthrow of our democracy and our economic Free Enterprise System of Capitalism (free from corporate monopoly) was done within with secret trade agreements.

How can the criminals responsible in Congress and the Washington Empire of Debt, Fraud and Chaos not be responsible for the treasonous destruction of our economy? Camden and Detroit distruction is the result of their secret Free Trade agreements.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 21:54 | 6108070 John Wilmot
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"The overthrow of our democracy and our economic Free Enterprise System of Capitalism (free from corporate monopoly) was done within with secret trade agreements."

1. Ha! If only democracy were overthrown, that would solve the entire problem.

2. Trade agreements that reduce taxes on imports did not undermine free market capitalism (you understand that free trade is a rather crucial part of free market capitalism?). Central banking, rising taxes, ever-increasing regulatory costs, and the welfare state undermined free market capitalism. O, and, of course, democracy - without which none of the above would have ever happened.

....but, no, I'm sure "more democracy" and repealing NAFTA will solve all our problems....

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 23:16 | 6108446 windcatcher
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In reply to John Wingnut: You look awfully young and you certainly are ignorant. You deserve a non-life as a debt slave and the misery coming your way. Ha. Ha. Ha.

You stupid oaf, you do not even know the difference between democracy (which you do not deserve) and totalitarian fascism which your kind deserve.

American? You would not make a bump on a real Americans ass whiney boy! Ha. Ha. Ha.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:17 | 6106917 Miss Expectations
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It's full of superfund and brownfield sites:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected the City of Camden, NJ as a Regional Assessment Demonstration Pilot in September 1996.

The City of Camden (population 87,500) is the fifth largest city in New Jersey. The City is considered an economically depressed area, having a predominantly minority population, a high unemployment rate (36 percent), and a one in three poverty rate. Manufacturing and related land uses account for one third of Camden's nine square miles, and brownfields constitute more than half of all industrial sites in the City. Abandoned industrial sites contain chemicals, transformers, and other contaminants that pose significant threats to human health. Contamination of soil and groundwater is suspected at many of these sites. A lack of information about site conditions and potential liabilities at abandoned facilities has stifled reinvestment, resulting in a decreased tax base, increased blight, depressed community morale, and diminished employment opportunities.

http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/brownfields/icamden.htm

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WELSBACH & GENERAL GAS MANTLE (CAMDEN RADIATION)

EPA will investigate approximately 600 Suspect Properties during the Remedial Design phase. When these properties are tested, it is likely that some will be found to contain radiologically-contaminated material and will require remediation. The selected remedy also includes such remediation. EPA believes that cleanup of additional contaminated properties will not affect the overall scope of the remedial action.

Contaminant:  Metals, PAH, PCBs, Radioactive

Estimated Capital Cost: $33,891,680

http://cumulis.epa.gov/superrods/?fuseaction=data.rodinfo&id=0203580&mRo...

 

 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 21:29 | 6108073 John Wilmot
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"having a predominantly minority population"

hmm...

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 06:38 | 6108872 Refuse-Resist
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Gonna be a white minority: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-jHkQFVTVg

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:18 | 6106921 JimmyRainbow
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http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100627270

Weapons of Mass Migration Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy .....after testing it outside its good to use it inside,,,,,,
Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:19 | 6106924 orangegeek
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barry saying MOAR stupid shit

 

what else is new

 

FUCK YOU BARRY!!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:19 | 6106926 large_wooden_badger
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Promise for the nation? What nation?

#dontthreatenme

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:22 | 6106936 DaveA
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I love how these inner-city youths are "disenfranchised", when the party they vote for hasn't lost a single municipal election in the last 50 years. I wish I were so disenfranchised!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:24 | 6106958 frankly scarlet
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lot of angry comments laying blame all over the place as the images are upsetting and frightening...that is after all the purpose of poverty,to frighten the working and middle classes to keep working to support the system and the 1% who own the system....

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:27 | 6106968 Sun and Moon
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*OBAMA SAYS CAMDEN IS SYMBOL OF PROMISE FOR NATION

Obama is promising to make the whole nation like Camden? That's probably the only promise he will keep.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:34 | 6106999 TIMBO Anti-Castro
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castro and Kim Jong Un also tout their societies as the pinnacle of the human condition.

 

Obama is a f*cking moron. 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:52 | 6107083 Stormtrooper
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And compared to Obamas' homeland, Camden probably really is a pinnacle of human condition.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 21:33 | 6108089 John Wilmot
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The murder rate in Kenya is a tad lower than in Camden.

On the other hand, the average income is a lot lower, but if you exclude Bama Bucks pouring in from less-blighted parts of the country, it might be about even.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:42 | 6107033 cn13
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Obama and pretty much every U.S. politician is nothing but a lying sack of dung.

Why does anyone waste his time listening to anything they say?

Traitorous crooks, every last one of them.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:48 | 6107066 Crocodile
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Camden Crime Statistics - You judge.

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/nj/camden/crime/

& this as well as a second souce with stats thru 2012  http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Camden-New-Jersey.html

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:49 | 6107075 CHC
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Camden is the living metaphor when there are no police to prevent chaos and the slide into absolute anarchy.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:31 | 6107202 Monty Burns
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Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:41 | 6107215 Monty Burns
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It's not the lack of police. This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. : (Plato).  I live in a town of about 20,000 (more than a quarter the size of Camden) in Ireland and we've had three murders in half a century. The current strength of the police force is a princely 14. 

Applying Camden ratios we've have had 300-400 murders over that period and would now have a police force of about 90.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:44 | 6107251 clade7
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Wow!  Only 3 murders in half a century?  Must be a dry Irish town, (sic) or near a cliff I'm thinking, where folks just go 'missing'...kudos though, its all about the stats..

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:47 | 6107268 Monty Burns
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Most certainly not a dry town!  Plenty of fist fights but yes, only 3 murders in my lifetime (I'm mid sixties). Worryingly though two of them have been in the last ten years.

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 13:22 | 6110243 Kobe Beef
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Hello there Monty, Brussels would like to know if you're ready for your "cultural enrichment."

Tue, 05/19/2015 - 06:39 | 6108873 Refuse-Resist
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His city is obviously racist.  Low crime rates are racist and anti-diversity.  He jsut needs some mexicans, some section 8 housing, some Somalis, and maybe some radical muslims to spice up his boring, drab, and racist neighborhood.

 

 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 19:23 | 6107668 sTls7
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So true, so true... it is the citizens.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:50 | 6107076 deerhunter
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I was at a sales call 20 some blocks northwest of downtown Chicago on Friday afternoon.  From the 3 flat i was in you could almost literally spit on I 94 traffic in the southbound lane.  This building  had been occupied by this couple for 40 years and they claimed they were going to put it on the market for 600 K after I did some structural improvements for them.  I would not get out of my car in that neighborhood unless I had my 870 full of 00buck and both 9's concealed and only then to travel from the car to the building.  WTF?  This is in a "decent" neighborhood according to the residents.  I am 59 years old and don't recognize my country.  My suburban 1600 ft 3 bedroom w 16x32 inground pool and hot tub in sun room sells for 189 tomorrow.  Who the fuck in their right mind would live in the city?  They both however were long time Public Service of the City of Chicago and living on a healthy pension so maybe I just answered my own question.  There are some neighborhoods in south Chicago I simply refuse to go.  Some parts of west side are the same.  I did notice there were only 2 shooting deaths over the weekend in the city but 59 wounded in other shootings.  Piss poor aim I would say.  Maybe the weather is a little too chilly for good aiming and proper gun handling.  Sarc off.

Smart people here.  Stocking up on PB.  More 00buck or more 9mm ammo?  In house protection of choice is the 12ga though i lost most firearms in a boating accident.

 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:54 | 6107095 falconflight
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Yeah, but the meaning of the 2nd Amendment is ever narrowing, and in most of these great Urban Utopias, you're going to jail for possession and for life it you defend yourself.  Look how G. Zimmerman's life has been ruined.  He'll either be murdered or he'll act out, and be sent to prison for final deposition.  

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 20:30 | 6107874 MeBizarro
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In fantasy land, the meaning of the 2nd Amendment is ever narrowing but in reality it has never been broader.  Hell in PA in the last decade alone they have greatly expanded concealed carry, passed the Castle Doctrine for home defense, etc.  

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 21:44 | 6108135 John Wilmot
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The number of restrictions on gun ownership/use are directly related to the crime rate, it seems.

Camden, New Jersey, with a murder rate triple that of Haiti?

You might be able to own a pistol, as long as it doesn't look scary and has only 3 round capacity, if you keep it locked in a safe locked inside another safe, and only take it out once a year for cleaning (properly supervised by the Dept. of Bumblefuckery, of course).

Podunk, West Virginia, whose last murder occurred during the Roosevelt administration?

You can open-carry a shotgun into the grocery store.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 22:10 | 6108237 falconflight
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There are indeed some victories, but even after the SCOTUS decision which should have put these questions to rest, look what Cal, Co, Ct and NY have done.  In DC, the only gun store is, no shit, inside the DCMPD.  Gun ownership is still basically banned in Chicago, DC, NYC, Baltimore, and other Urban Utopias.  Here in NC, I actually have to go to the Sheriff and request a permit ($5) just to buy a firearm.  I'll say eff it and buy in Georgia instead.  

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:50 | 6107077 falconflight
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Hopefully, those Proletariats will soon conduct raids into the white counties, like Baltimore.  Whites must become a real street-level part of the struggle. The purges must intensify.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:53 | 6107088 Burticus
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More like a "festering $#!+#01e" than a "rotting decaying hellhole," I would say...  The "new normal" for 'murka, thanks to the elephant/jackass sock puppets and their masters.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:57 | 6107107 Who was that ma...
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At least there's one bright spot, the police department is being disbanded.  There's one more gang of thugs off the streets.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:58 | 6107114 Youri Carma
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The new "Junk City": Five Reasons Chicago Is in Worse Shape Than Detroit

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-13/how-chicago-city-of-junk-just-moved-a-little-closer-to-detroit

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:59 | 6107118 Shekels
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Camden is for Christians what Gaza City is for Muslims ! Oye vey !

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 17:02 | 6107121 falconflight
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Well then hopefully, and soon, the Camdens of Merika will drag you and your little Eichenmans out onto the street and 'deal' with you.

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