Protesters Picket Closed-Door Meeting on Camden Metro Police
Mayors from several Camden County towns endured jeers and taunts from the crowd of 75-plus while denying entry to a delegation of police chiefs.
Waving signs that read “WE DEMAND RESPECT FOR CAMDEN” and “PUBLIC SERVANTS NOT PUBLIC SLAVES,” some 75 picketers gathered outside the Camden County Boathouse Tuesday evening to protest a closed-door meeting of several local mayors on the subject of replacing the Camden police department with a county-based metro division. Chanting “Sell-out” as each successive attendee arrived, the crowd cheered when a passing car or truck honked in support, and heckled the building through bullhorns for nearly two solid hours. Among those coordinating the opposition were Camden City residents, police and firefighters from throughout the county, and their families. To a person, they expressed nearly the same concerns—that details of the reorganization plan…
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Loretka
2:39 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
To Joseph Forrest, I say AMEN I grew up in Whitman Park, and when I got married I moved to East Camden and raised my kids there. Both areas were great places to grow up. And I worked in center city Camden for 22 years. So what happened to Camden? It is what it is- facts speak for themselves. But I do feel sorry for the GOOD people who are stuck there and have no choice. more ›