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-C-Amd i98NJ: County -wide force resulted in higher excessive <br />force complaints <br />Excessive force complaints <br />Camden's excessive farce complaint numbers are higher than cities with much larger <br />populations and more police officers. <br />Hover to view the number of excessive force compPaints. <br />0 CAMDEN 80 <br />M NEWARK <br />0JERSEY CITY 60 <br />E TRENTON <br />0 ATLANTIC CITY 40 <br />20 <br />2011 2012 2013 2014 <br />*Cf the 46 complaints in 2013, 35 were against the Camden County Police Department, which took over <br />policing in the city of Camden in May 2013. The other 11 were filed against the city's previous police <br />department, which patrolled Camden prior to being disbanded. <br />Sources: <br />• CityMetric (2020) - "[Camden's experience] was a <br />conjunction of opportunities and circumstances that <br />would be really tough to replicate," says Alan Mallach, a <br />senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress and <br />a veteran of New Jersey's local policymaking world. "It's <br />a city that's hyper -segregated and hyper -poor in terms <br />of the people who live there and the fiscal resources of <br />the local government. By the time the police issue came <br />to a head, Camden was a ward of the state." <br />• The new Camden County police force is actually larger <br />than its predecessor and ends a larger budget, routed <br />through the county government. Its officers are younger, <br />whiter, and less likely to live in the city. After its <br />establishment, the force ramped up "proactive" policing, <br />which many younger residents experience as <br />harassment. Use -of -force complaints surged, and a <br />new, more progressive rule book was only adopted after <br />a serious campaign by local activists. <br />Stanford Universip <br />