Please find jersey shore...please find jersey shore....please find jersey shore...

coco ebert: I guess they're there to protect construction workers???

Is that your best guess?

coco ebert: Rich Cream: coco ebert: I guess they're there to protect construction workers???

Is that your best guess?

Honestly, I don't know WTF they're doing sitting in their parked cars for hours on end.


They're guarding someone's money.

/protecting the moneyed interests, if you will

Where you say you're from again?

Didn't Christie cut the police forces in NJ so he could buy a metric ton of the McRib sandwich and 400 gallons of Coca Cola?

Hoping and praying the cops are too busy.

Hell. sounds like the police there do more good than most cops.

They're just out here to pick up the bodies


"To protect, to serve, and to bring the bodies a little closer to your car."


"Excuse me, officer, my wife has never seen a man shaped in quite that manner..."

better or worse than the airforce?

I was last in Camden a few years ago. Stopped into a convenience store which, literally, was the only non-blighted building on the block.

I've been in some pretty bad areas, but Camden has a extra layer of "spooky" in some of its neighborhoods were you can literally drive for miles and not see a single human being...just...blight.

Rich Cream: Where you say you're from again?


Friendly white families.... Yeah that pretty much describes it.

Rich Cream: Where you say you're from again?

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Dang it... I'm apparently from the trifecta of McMansions, old people and asians and where they filmed clerks. Stupid Middlesex county.

sigdiamond2000: BravadoGT: Camden is a Democrat stronghold--has been for decades. How is it not a paradise?

On cause of Democrats what are socialisms.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Imagine how much worse it'd be if the cops actually did something.

styckx: The best part of going to a concert in Camden is if you make one wrong turn leaving the (whatever it is called this year) Center you end up right in the middle of "stopping at red lights is optional" land.

Went to a concert there once and was afraid to stop at red lights afterward.

coco ebert: Yeah, that can happen when you cut the police force by half.

Times are tight. Gotta cut back.



Hauling Chris Christie's fat ass around ain't cheap. (new window)

I traveled out to Jersey this past summer to attend a wedding. I never felt safe. Never. Also, everything about the smell is true. Heavens above, it was awful. Smelled like sewage and salt.

if they would stop wasting time arresting and jailing pot growers, I wonder how much money they would save

Go to Zillow and check out the prices for "homes" in Camden.

Hooooly crap.

ArtosRC: I traveled out to Jersey this past summer to attend a wedding. I never felt safe. Never. Also, everything about the smell is true. Heavens above, it was awful. Smelled like sewage and salt.

NJ really doesn't have much by way of environmental laws, that's why a lot of pharma factories and household product factories are based there and where the horrific stench comes from.

I haven't read the thread yet, but I'm sure someone mentioned: Governor "Let's Ruin the State!" helped half the police force get fired.

This state actually is incredibly appealing because the public school systems are amongst the best in the country and it's an incredibly safe state. That is, almost everywhere EXCEPT for our cities, which are amongst the worst in the country. The changes are incredibly drastic as you go from inner cities such as Newark and Camden to the suburbs outside such as Montclair and Cherry Hill. Maybe it's like that in other states too, but I feel like it's extra drastic here.

However, Christie wants it all to fail to his buddies can come in and privatize the education system with charter schools, that much I understand, but I have no idea why he hates cops.


/see also: wealth disparity.

I dream'd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth;
I dream'd that was the new City of Friends;
Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love-it led the rest;
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.

CitizenTed: I was born and raised in Middlesex County and lived there till I was 23 or so. The reason cops sit in patrol cars at construction sites is to ward off material theft. Back in the day, the mob employed material theft as their go-to easy-buck plan. They'd even steal from themselves, sell the gear and charge the insurance company for the theft value. After a while, every joe shmoe was stealing construction site material. It was pandemic. The mob no longer had the corner on the market so they started going "straight" and hiring cops to make a display and ward off interlopers. Now most builders - straight or crooked - pay for cops to make a presence known. Does it work? I dunno. But it probably beats the hell out of chasing black kids around New Brunswick for selling bags of pot.

Yeahhhh...

No.

Worked heavy highway in New Jersey for ten years (and tunnels!). The cops are there for traffic control. In a lot of cases they're mandated by state or local law.

NJDOT has a specific traffic division for highway construction. I like those troopers the best; they're great for helping out on site (like stopping traffic so trucks can make difficult turns into the property or slowing down traffic for equipment moves).

Camden literally looks like the pictures you see after bombing raids in WWII. These were brick rowhomes that literally look like a war zone. In the 1980s when my grandmom was in Our lady of lourdes hospital in Camden security literally walked you to your car with a police dog.

Troublesome Strumpet: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

lolwut

Killer Cars: "Camden has a extra layer of "spooky" in some of its neighborhoods were you can literally drive for miles and not see a single human being...just...blight."

Sounds like most of Detroit. And most of Flint. And much of Pontiac.
Anyone with the resources has left. So the people with no where else to go and nothing left to lose concentrate, because scrapping, stealing and squatting is so damn easy and the cops in neighboring communities care about nothing remotely as much as holding the border.

Anyway, it's a special kind of tragic.

Jake Havechek: NJ really doesn't have much by way of environmental laws, that's why a lot of pharma factories and household product factories are based there and where the horrific stench comes from.

The world as it should not be.

shiat son. Edmonton Alberta has had 44 homicides so far this year. Or course we have 730,372 people compared to Camden's 77,344.

/Murder City Canada.

Rich Cream: Where you say you're from again?

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I got a very satisfying blowjob from someone from "Christie Country." Her father meets with the Gov. regularly. I will send this image to her now.

/thanks