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Stephen Danley
@SteveDanley
Author: A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort. Prof at Rutgers. Director of the Center for Urban Research and Education (@curerutgers).
Jun 8, 2020 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
1/x The narrative on Camden, NJ disbanding its police is dangerously oversimplified. The new force embraced broken windows policing (and more). Local NAACP pushed the new force to embrace deescalation (and more). To the force’s credit, it is increasingly responsive. Here we go: 2/x Camden’s police force was disbanded as part of a political coalition being local Democrats and Republican Gov. Christie. It happened at a time when state austerity measures deeply cut funding and caused a crisis in the city. nytimes.com/2010/11/14/nyr…