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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Obama Bans Some Military-Style Equipment Provided to Police Through Federal Program [View all]BumRushDaShow
(129,065 posts)11. Poor Camden
As I was growing up in the '60s and '70s, I watched how Camden really began to decay like so many other cities, while new housing developments continued to be built at a furious pace, cutting through thousands of acres of farmland (particularly in Jersey and thanks to Toll Brothers builders). People eventually fled the cities for the nice new homes and office parks in areas that were surburbanized. The last gasp was Nixon's "benign neglect" of the cities that lead to the crumbling of places like Camden.
Now some 50 - 60 years later, those "suburbs" are "old", and there is actually an in-migration back to the cities as they scrape off the "rust" and find shiny new steel underneath of them.
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BREAKING: Obama Bans Some Military-Style Equipment Provided to Police Through Federal Program [View all]
Hissyspit
May 2015
OP
My very first thought, recall all the crap already in the hands of the boys in blue.
marble falls
May 2015
#5
Exactly what I was thinking. I imagine the asshole PDs who have their military gear will
valerief
May 2015
#19
Probably a dumb question: Where are the poor inhabitants of the city being pushed to?
jwirr
May 2015
#23
So the problem of poverty is just being kicked down the road. Sooner or later we are going to have
jwirr
May 2015
#26
On our local tv station "news", in PD recruitment pieces they are called "The Big Toys"
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#16
Not really, plenty of such toys are still on the move and scheduled for delivery....
AuntPatsy
May 2015
#29