Being the Person Behind the Badge [TheAtlantic.com]
Camden, New Jersey, has long had a reputation as one of the most dangerous cities in America. In 2012, the city made an unprecedented move by terminating its entire 270-person police force in favor of hiring non-unionized workers supervised by the county. Officials at that time said that union contracts, in a city with a major lack of revenue , made it financially impossible to keep enough officers on the street. Two years after the overhaul , the department employed 411 officers with nearly...