The Most Dangerous Towns in America
Dead city, dead bodies. As rapper Eminem said last year in his infamous Super Bowl commercial, “This is the Motor City and this is what we do:”
DETROIT (AP) — Abandoned and neglected parts of Detroit are quickly becoming dumping grounds for the bodies of murder victims. And authorities acknowledge there’s little they can do.
At least a dozen bodies have turned up in 12 months, many of them purposely hidden or discarded in alleys, fields and vacant houses or garages. Seven of the dead are believed to have been slain outside Detroit and then dumped within the city.
It’s a pattern made possible by more than four decades of urban decay and suburban flight.
Meanwhile, in New Jersey, the city of Camden was about 20 minutes* south from where I grew up. And even back then, other than driving down the Admiral Wilson Boulevard as quickly as possible to get onto the Ben Franklin Bridge and into Philadelphia, you did not go into Camden. London’s Daily Mail explains why in a harrowing Detroit-esque photo essay on what it dubs “the most dangerous town in America.”
* But then, all of South Jersey is 20 minutes away from the rest of South Jersey.
Those will make good fertilizer for Detroit’s urban-farming initiative
Just keeps getting better in MoTown
Yet another horror story from a city run by the Democrats. When will voters make the connection?
Camden always has gotten off lightly as far as bad names go, because when people think of a dysfunctional city in New Jersey, they always think of Newark (and part of the problem with both cities is the people living around them are more tied to New York and Philadelphia than they are to the urban centers in their own home states, so that post-World War II and the arrival of the mobile society, there was no significant core business areas to keep them attractive to those who could now live miles further out and still get to work in a decent time).
I was going to suggest that the authorities install CCTV cameras in the deserted parts of the city…
but then I realized they’d just get stolen. Like the wiring for the streetlights.
Detroit vivdly illustrates the results of 100 years of union/Democrat rule.
“the city of Camden was about 20 minutes* south from where I grew up.”
What exit?
(Born in Franklin Lakes, so I get to joke)
I wonder if this is what the frontiers of the Roman Empire looked like at the end. But no, can’t give in to despair, just have to vote out the cretins in power right now.
Born in Camden ’63 and parents hauled @$$ in ’73 – could see the Campbell’s soup factory from our house; still some industry left in ’73 but all leaving fast along with anyone who had the means to high tail it out of there. Twelve miles from Camden is Moorestown, NJ – consistently voted one of the best places to live in the U.S. (Google it) with one of the best school districts in NJ. When Romney talks about differences in culture – this is what he means! The slums of Camden bordering the prosperity of Moorestown a dichotomy. Same state constitution guaranteeing “equality” of education, twelve miles gives equal opportunity for the same jobs, same weather, same roads (Rt. 130, Rt. 38), same stores, same businesses, same parks (Cooper river), same newspapers, same, same, same. In one town the kids are in gangs, on drugs or dead and in the other town kids are trying to get into Friends (@ $25,000/year) because the local H.S. isn’t good enough for getting into the Ivy’s. Sure, the Left can seethe with jealousy but the people in Camden have no one to blame but themselves, they have the same opportunities as the folks 12 miles down the road. No one is keeping them from studying hard, staying in school and staying out of trouble, getting a job or having babies – but themselves. Camden’s culture sucks.