Camden, New Jersey, disbanded its police department and built a new one. Can others learn from it? As fires burned and Philadelphia police clashed with protesters, across the river, Camden ...

Camden’s 270 police officers could receive their layoff notices by the end of the year. According to officials, the county police force would include a new Camden Metro Police Division, with 400 ...

And then the city set about rebuilding the police ... Zack James of the Camden County Metro Police Department marches along with demonstrators in Camden, N.J., on May 30. | April Saul via AP ...

Camden City Council today voted to lay off all the city's uniformed officers, as a prelude to phasing out the department and setting up a county-run "metro" police department. There was no debate ...

The Camden City Police Department was disbanded with ... and Tamir Rice. In 2015, the Metro Police Department entered into a de-escalation mentoring program and began to rework their own use ...

“My administration, along with the majority of city council and many Camden residents, are eager and ready to continue the steady transition into the new Metro Police Division,” said Redd.

activists note that while nearly 80 percent of Camden’s residents are Black or Latinx, the Metro police are roughly 46 percent white and most don’t live in the city. Benson argues that changes ...

The city of Camden first recruited the county’s help for code ... Council President Curtis Jenkins reportedly told residents last week that “Metro,” as the county police are known, would serve only in ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) - Camden County's park police ... for the new Metro Division, the first employment offers went out this weekend, the vast majority of them to current Camden City cops.

More than 30 members of the new Camden County Police Department Metro Division will be deployed on the streets of New Jersey's most impoverished city. In addition, 23 new officers will begin field ...

Following dissolution of the city’s police force last year ... view based on our ‘Eye in the Sky’ cameras,” said Capt. Albert Handy of the Camden County Police, Metro Division. Vetted residents are ...

English believes the key is police activity. According to the city, crime has been steadily decreasing since May 1, 2013, when the Camden County Police Department was first formed. The crime rate ...