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| Covering Poverty Widely in a Net of Many Voices |
| April 8, 2009 | No Profit; No Proceeds |
| Volume 12 Number 20 | All-Volunteer |
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| Labor Agency is Failing Workers |
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WASHINGTON, DC The federal agency charged with enforcing minimum wage, overtime, and many other labor laws is failing in that role, leaving millions of workers vulnerable, Congressional auditors have found. In a report released March 24, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the agency, the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, had mishandled 9 of the 10 cases brought by a team of undercover agents posing as aggrieved workers.
In one case, the division failed to investigate a complaint that under-age children in Modesto CA were working during school hours at a meatpacking plant with dangerous machinery, the GAO, the nonpartisan auditing arm of Congress, found. When an undercover agent posing as a dishwasher called four times to complain about not being paid overtime for 19 weeks, the division's office in Miami failed to return his calls for four months. When it did, the report said, an official told him it would take 8 to 10 months to begin investigating his case. "This investigation clearly shows that Labor has left thousands of actual victims of wage theft who sought federal government assistance with nowhere to turn," the report said. "Unfortunately, far too often the result is unscrupulous employers' taking advantage of our country's low-wage workers." The report pointed to a cavalier attitude by many Wage and Hour Division investigators, saying they often dropped cases when employers did not return calls and sometimes told complaining workers that they should file lawsuits, an often expensive and arduous process, especially for low-wage workers. During the nine-month investigation, the report said, 5 of the 10 labor complaints that undercover agents filed were not recorded in the Wage and Hour Division's database, and three were not investigated. In two cases, officials recorded that employers had paid back wages, even though they had not. The GAO also investigated hundreds of cases that it said the Wage and Hour Division had mishandled. In one, the division waited 22 months to investigate a complaint from a group of restaurant workers. Ultimately, investigators found that the workers were owed $230,000 because managers had made them work off the clock and had misappropriated tips. When the restaurant agreed to pay back wages but not the tips, investigators simply closed the case. Source: New York Times |
| Poverty Study Emphasizes Opportunity |
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BERLIN, GERMANY To be successful, poverty-reducing
programs must be informed by the lives and experiences of the millions of poor people around the world and emphasize economic opportunity, says a study released on March 11 by the World Bank. "Moving out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up" is one of the few large-scale comparative research attempts to analyze mobility out of poverty rather than poverty alone.
One of the key findings points out that equal opportunity remains a dream for many people. Poor people "face a lot of exclusionary practices," said World Bank social scientist Nora Dudwick. Referring to disadvantaged people's inabilities to get into job markets and receive financial aid, she said, "They don’t encounter a level playing field." The study also suggests that collective action helps poor people cope but not get ahead. While pooling together their labor, cash, or skills may give poor people a way to survive, the real benefit of this collective action is to society. Working together fosters a sense of citizenship essential to functioning, stable, and cohesive democratic societies. The study points out that it is the responsive local democracies that come out of such societies that can help reduce poverty. Also, though microcredit can help the poor subsist from day to day, in order to lift them out of poverty, larger loans are needed so that the poor can expand their productive activities and thereby increase their assets. The research debunks some myths and prejudices about the poor, whom many see as passive and without ambition or aspirations. When asked by researchers how one could move out of poverty, nearly all groups emphasized individual effort, self-reliance, and initiative. "We find little evidence that poor people are poor because of laziness or disinterest in work and savings," said Deepa Narayan, the lead author of the study. "Even in very poor and conflict-prone areas, poor people seldom seem apathetic. Instead they take initiatives, often pursuing many small ventures simultaneously to survive and get ahead." The study concluded that the focus of poverty reduction strategies must therefore shift to increasing economic, social, and political opportunities in the local communities where the poor live. These local opportunities include the provision of business know-how, basic access to health and education, and the improvement of local governance. Efforts must also be directed to preventing people from becoming poor in the first place when they sell off assets or become indebted because of illness, unemployment, natural disasters, or world financial crisis. New strategies are needed to increase their resilience through social and health insurance programs, as well as better access to credits, local markets, and infrastructure projects. Source: Inter Press Service |
| Ex-Addicts Help Women on Camden Streets |
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CAMDEN, NJ Every Friday at lunchtime, West Deptford residents Brenda and Bill Antinore drive up and down Broadway in Camden to offer food, business cards, and
prayers to the women they see. Brenda started doing this off-and-on three years ago. Last summer, she turned her
outreach into a weekly ministry called "She Has A Name."
Brenda does this, she explains, because "that could've been me out on the street." In the summer of 1994, the Antinores started using crack to deal with their marital problems. He was a prominent real estate attorney, and she was a high school health teacher. The crack use led to embezzlement and imprisonment. They tried various rehabs but nothing stuck until they found God. After Bill got out of prison in 1999, he began ministering to ex-offenders with $20,000 in start-up donations from fellow members at Sovereign Grace Church in Marlton. Brenda helped him between part-time jobs. Gradually, the Antinores built up their ministries to include weekend breakfasts and services. Every time they drove into Camden, Brenda was struck by the women she saw. "As a mother, seeing those young girls out there, that really started to tear at my heart." She began making trips to Camden with drinks, food, clothes, and feminine products -- anything practical that could help a woman, except for money. By now, she's met more than 70 women. Every week, there are new faces. She records their names in a composition book. As she gets to know them over time, she adds details about their lives, their families, and any prayer requests they ask her to bring to her church. Many of the women come from the suburbs and have children staying with relatives. Almost all of them admit to drug addictions. Some disappear for a few months, maybe to a rehab or jail, but they always seem to return eventually. Brenda explained, "This lifestyle, as ugly as it is, gets comfortable." Sometimes the women get clean in jail, Brenda said, but once they finish their sentence they have nowhere to go. "What do you think they're going to do?" she asked. "They're going to go back to what they've been doing their whole lives." So far, Brenda has helped a couple of women get into rehab programs. "I'm not naive in thinking that we'll even help half of them." Maybe one day, though, they'll have "that moment" when they realize it's time to surrender, she says. Source: Courier-Post |
| Squatters Grab Council's Empty-Properties List |
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LONDON, ENGLAND A council has been forced to give details of every empty home in its area to squatters because of a legal loophole. Lambeth in South London had to hand over the list after squatters submitted a Freedom Of Information
(FOI) request. The Labour-run borough provided details of an estimated 800 properties despite council officers' fears that the move could lead to a marked rise in squatting in the borough.
Critics will ask whether the coup could be used as a precedent by other squatters' groups. They accuse the local authority of "incompetence" in the way it handled the request from the Advisory Service for Squatters, submitted in September last year. Liberal Democrat opposition leader Ashley Lumsden said a senior council source told him that housing officers had earlier committed "a grave error" by publishing a list of all vacant properties in the appendix of a council document. When the squatters presented their demand, the information was already in the public domain so the request could not be denied. But the council said it had been forced to give out the information because of a legal precedent set by another council. A spokeswoman for Lambeth Living, which manages the borough's council housing, said, "When responding to FOI requests we have to operate within the letter of the law. "A legal precedent had already been set in response to a similar FOI inquiry to Bexley Council. On challenging the request, they were instructed by the Information Tribunal that they had a legal duty to provide the address details of empty properties which were not owned by individuals." She added that the number of Lambeth properties with squatters had fallen over the past six months from 49 to 45. The incident is not the first major embarrassment for Lambeth in its struggle with squatters. Four empty blocks of flats at Limerick Court on the border of Streatham and Balham were occupied by more than a hundred people for six months until they were evicted last summer. Two years ago at least 100 armed police officers used stun grenades in a huge raid on a property in Kennington which had been used as a squat for decades. They found several kilos of cannabis, crack cocaine, and six rounds of live ammunition. Councillor Lumsden said the FOI incident was in a long line of blunders by the housing department that has seen it overspend by an estimated £23 million, and the number of empty council homes double since 2006 to nearly 900. He told the Streatham Guardian, "The administration seems hell-bent on destroying public housing in Lambeth through a mixture of brain-numbing incompetence and sheer bloody-mindedness." Source: London Daily Mail |
| Camden Nonprofit Draws from Nationwide Volunteer Pool |
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CAMDEN, NJ The staff at Urban Promise (UP) hosts a barbecue to thank the college students who have spent spring break at the nonprofit's campus in Camden next to
Pennsauken. A banner overhead reads, "I could have gone to Cancun, but God called to Camden instead." The nonprofit has made good use of the banner this spring: UP has seen more than 200 students come from 18 different schools.
"These are students that, perhaps a lot of their classmates are off to Cancun or Florida to unwind from their studies, but they choose to be here," said UP work group director Jim Cummings. Camden is becoming a spring break destination for students who want to use the time off to help those less fortunate in a city known for a high crime rate and poverty. Said Cummings, "This little city of 80,000 people has a reputation that goes far and wide." "They come from all over the United States and Canada," Cummings said. The students spend their time helping maintain the Rudderow Street campus, which houses an elementary school, a high school, and several programs after school that serve a combined 500 children. "It's the only way that we can do what we do," Cummings said. "If we were to pay them, even at minimum wage, we're looking at thousands of dollars." Those are dollars the nonprofit uses to run five after-school programs throughout the city. "For me, it's really relevant to faith and what I believe in," said 24-year-old Jason Murray, the campus minister at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland VA. "It's far more meaningful than going to the beach." Murray and 20-year-old fellow student Nick Palladino helped renovate the nonprofit Ray Scull Memorial Home, which will house offices and an art studio. They could have done the same type of work in post-Katrina Biloxi MS. "I chose to come here because the vision that Urban Promise has, I think, is very compelling," Murray said. "This is so different than what I've ever experienced in a city," added Palladino. Some college volunteers returned after graduation to become part of the staff. Others have taken the UP model to Delaware, Toronto, Vancouver, Honduras, and Malawi. Kelly Conner, 18, spent time helping the teachers at UP's Camden Forward School. The religion studies and Spanish major learned as much from the children as they learned from her. "I really had no idea what to expect," she said. "I'm from a small town, and Camden is a neighborhood that I'm not used to. I've learned that good things can come from an area like Camden. These are wonderful kids, wonderful people. Camden is not such a bad place if there are people like this." Source: Courier-Post |
| Japan Pays Jobless Foreigners Willing to Go Home |
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TOKYO, JAPAN Japan began offering money last Wednesday
for unemployed foreigners of Japanese ancestry to go home, mostly to Brazil and Peru, to stave off what officials said poses a serius unemployment problem. Thousands of foreigners of Japanese ancestry, who had been hired on temporary or referral contracts, have lost their jobs recently, mostly at manufacturers, such as Toyota, which are struggling to cope with the global downturn.
The number of foreigners seeking government help to find jobs has climbed in recent months to 11 times the previous year at more than 9,000 people, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Said ministry official Hiroshi Yamashita, "The program is to respond to a growing social problem." Japan has tight immgration laws and generally allows only skilled foreign workers to enter the country. The new program applies only to Brazilians and Peruvians of Japanese ancestry who have gotten special visas to do assembly line and other manufacturing labor. It does not apply to other foreigners in Japan, Yamashita said. The government will give 300,000 yen ($3,000) to an unemployed foreigner of Japanese ancestry who wishes to leave the country, and 200,000 ($2,000) each to family members, the ministry said. But they must forgo returning to Japan to live and work under the special entry granted those of Japanese ancestry. They can come as tourists or under other work visas. The visa program for South Americans of Japanese ancestry was introduced partly in response to a labor shortage in Japan, where the population is shrinking and aging. But the need for such workers has dwindled in recent months after the global financial crisis hit last year. The jobless rate has risen to 4.4%, a three-year high. Major companies traditionally offer lifetime employment to their rank and file. Workers hired on temporary contracts have been the first to lose their jobs in this recession. Source: Associated Press |
| Immigration Detention Neglects Health |
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MIAMI, FL The medical care system in US immigration
detention is dangerously inadequate, with unique
consequences for women, and improving health care for immigration detainees should be a top priority for the new administration, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC). In two
reports released on March 17, HRW and FIAC document numerous instances in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) botched, delayed, or denied medical care, causing suffering and even death.
"Because immigration detention is the fastest-growing form of incarceration in the United States," said researcher Meghan Rhoad of HRW, "these abuses are especially dangerous. They remain largely hidden from public scrutiny or effective oversight." The HRW report documents dozens of cases in which ICE's medical staff either failed to respond at all to health problems of women in detention or responded only after considerable delays. Women described struggling to obtain potentially life-saving services such as Pap smears to detect cervical cancer, mammograms to check for breast cancer, pre-natal care, counseling for survivors of violence, and even basic supplies such as sanitary pads or breast pumps for nursing mothers. The obstacles to health services included inadequate communication about available services, unexplained delays in treatment, unwarranted denial of services, breaches of confidentiality, and failure to transfer medical records. When women were denied services, complaint mechanisms were ineffective. The FIAC report identifies major problems resulting in poor, and sometimes appalling, response to health problems. These include: a lack of independent oversight to ensure the quality and effectiveness of detainee medical care; delayed and denied care; shortages of qualified staff; improper care of mentally ill patients and physically disabled patients; problems with medication; difficulty gaining access to medical records; a lack of competent, professional interpreters; cruel and abusive behavior by some clinic and detention staff; unsanitary and overcrowded facilities; and the transfer or segregation of detainees in retaliation for medical complaints. "Death rates in detention appear to be worsening," said Cheryl Little, executive director of FIAC. "ICE needlessly detains people with severe illnesses and those who pose no harm to US communities. Doing so drives up ICE costs even as the agency provides increasingly inadequate medical and mental health care to those in its custody." More than 300,000 people were in immigration custody in the last year alone. The majority of immigration detainees are held by state and county jails under agreements with the federal agency. Under international standards, detainees are entitled to the same level of medical care as individuals in the community at large. Source: Human Rights Watch |
| Indian Sanitation Expert Wins Stockholm Water Prize |
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Indian sanitation expert Bindeshwar Pathak on March 25 won the Stockholm Water Prize for his
work in developing eco-friendly and cheap toilets to help improve public health, the jury said. Pathak, who founded the Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India in 1970, has worked "to improve public health, advance social progress, and improve human rights in India and other countries," said the jury of the Stockholm International Water Institute.
"The results of Dr Pathak's endeavors constitute one of the most amazing examples of how one person can impact the well-being of millions," the nominating committee said in its citation. According to the Institute, Pathak has helped change social attitudes toward "traditional unsanitary latrine practices in slums, rural villages, and dense urban districts, and developed cost-effective toilet systems that have improved daily life and health for millions of people." The toilets require only 1.5 liters (0.4 gallons) of water per use to flush, compared to 10 liters (2.6 gallons) for conventional toilets, offering significant benefits in regions with water shortages. Pathak has also developed technologies that convert waste from toilets into biogas for heating, cooking, and electricity generation. Pathak, born in 1943, will be presented with the $150,000 prize sum and a glass sculpture during the annual World Water Week in Stockholm in August. The prize has been awarded annually since 1991 to people, institutes, or organizations working to preserve water resources, improve public health, protect the ecosystem. Source: Agence France-Presse |
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| Graffiti, Trash Get Kicked Out of North Camden |
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CAMDEN, NJ Pyne Poynt Park's only two structures, a shed used to store soccer equipment and an abandoned radio station, were covered in graffiti until last Saturday. "We're going to have the youth here when soccer season starts and they don't need to see that," said Wren Ingram, chairwoman of the city's newly formed anti-graffiti task force. Ingram, a Fairview resident, was among the more than 50 volunteers who spent most of Saturday morning painting over the graffiti around the park and picking up trash.
"This is in response to concerns from the residents," Ingram said. The task force was born out of Camden's District Council Collaborative Boards, comprised of residents, officials, and law enforcement who gather to identify problems in the community and find ways to address them. "North Camden has the highest concentration of graffiti, so we wanted to start here." The cleanup coincided with registration day for the Camden Youth Soccer Club (CYSC). More than 300 children between the ages of 4 and 14 use the park during soccer season, which starts play on April 18 and runs through June. "They have a lot of life experiences here," said CYSC founder and president Ed Bonnette. "We leave this field pristine every week. We try to teach them good citizenship." "Everything we do is through volunteers," Bonnette said. Through donations, the league is able to lower the participation fee to $10 for returning players and $30 for new players. The fee includes a uniform, including soccer cleats, and a soccer ball for each child. Members also are eligible to participate free in the Club's summer camp. Eleven-year-old Aniekan Ibanga and his 9-year-old brother Abasiama liked returning to a graffiti-free home field. "I don't like graffiti," said Aniekan, a student at the McGraw Elementary School. "Some of the graffiti have bad words or inappropriate stuff for kids." Pyne Poynt Park is just a starting point for the anti-graffiti task force. On Saturday, the task force also cleaned the area between Fifth and Seventh streets, the park and Vine Street. It's important to do several blocks in one shot, Ingram said. The task force will continue its work twice a month, slowly branching out to cover all of North Camden. The idea is eventually to continue across the State Street Bridge into East Camden, Ingram said. "A lot of people are afraid with gang graffiti, that there's going to be retribution," Ingram said. But the task force isn't backing down. "You have to be relentless," Ingram said. "As soon as it gets tagged, we'll paint over it." Source: Courier-Post |
| Why Water Wars Won't Happen |
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Adapted from a piece by Jack Shafer:
Attention foreign-desk editors and those in charge of the environmental beat: Before assigning any pieces about impending wars between countries battling over this essential, scarce resource, read Wendy Barnaby's essay in Nature, "Do Nations Go to War Over Water?" Barnaby, the editor of the British Science Association magazine People & Science, writes, "Countries do not go to war over water, they solve their water shortages through trade and international agreements." Barnaby discovered this enduring truth after being approached by a publisher to write a book about water wars. When she started lining up sources for the book, her thinking shifted after being introduced to the concept of "embedded" or "virtual" water. It takes an average of about 1,000 cubic meters of water to grow enough food to feed one person for one year. Arid nations that can't muster that amount for each person can navigate around water scarcity by importing food, which contains "virtual" water from the land where it was grown. Barnaby writes, "Ten million people now live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. If they were to be self-sufficient in food, they would need ten billion cubic meters of water per year. As it is, they have only about one-third of that: enough to grow 15-20% of their food. They import the rest in the form of food." Water scarcity in the region results in "conflict and tension," Barnaby adds, but Israeli and Palestinian officials have successfully used a committee (controlled by the Israelis) to peacefully resolve problems. In other places where competition for water should theoretically escalate into violence, Barnaby finds similar resolution. Egypt has become more fluid in its relations with its water neighbors because it wants to improve the climate for trade. Similarly, India and Pakistan, which war with each other with the same frequency that other nations exchange sister cities, have so far used a World Bank-arbitrated treaty to make water peace. Barnaby wanted to revise the thesis for her water book, but her publisher pointed out that "predicting an absence of war over water would not sell" many copies. So she bagged the idea. Water, like all resources, is scarce. Scarcity can cause conflict. But before anyone starts frightening themselves about impending water wars, they might want to consider Barnaby's observation that in the last five decades there have been no "formal declarations of war over water." Source: Slate |
| Longer Working Lives 'Necessary and Desirable' |
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Adapted from a piece by columnist Ellen Goodman:
Older Americans ought to keep working in order to lighten the burden of Social Security and assorted benefits on younger generations. Older Americans ought to retire in order to make room for younger generations with their noses pressed to the closed window of the job market. Which? "We have steadily increased the ranks of the employed with older workers and thrown the young out in the cold," warns a Northeastern University study. We have warnings from economists about the effects of the huge transfer of income from younger workers to older retirees. In the last 15 years, Americans began to work longer. Changes in Social Security encouraged it, as did longevity, as did attitudes. Now the implosion of the stock market and the descent of 401(k)s have put retirement somewhere over the rainbow. People who were ready to leave are hanging on to the jobs that other people expected to fill and so on down the line, freezing the job market in place. Older workers who lost their jobs face discrimination getting new ones. People coming out of retirement are searching for any job at all. Meanwhile, the folks revving up generational conflict overlook the fact that most of us do not live or think in age cohort groups. We belong to families. If public money is transferred upward from younger workers to older retirees, private money flows downward from older parents to adult children and grandchildren. There is a chance for the boomer generation to make a virtue -- or a revolution -- out of the necessity of working longer. Marc Freedman of Civic Ventures talks about "encore careers" for those who want to leave their midlife jobs and move into work with social value. Now, he says hopefully, "The one benefit of this economic crisis is to drive home the reality that longer working lives are going to be necessary and desirable. If we can give people a sense that contributing longer is not another set of years at the grindstone but an opportunity to do something they can feel proud of, we'll have accomplished something significant." So far, there's been little help making the transition. But one innovative idea would make national service an on-ramp for encore careers. The bipartisan Serve America Act not only expands AmeriCorps with its young and old population but provides model fellowships in 50 states that would help older adults enter areas where they're needed, such as education or the environment. As Freedman says, we are just beginning. "We've had this half-century aimed at getting people out of the labor market. It was a vision of the American dream focused on the golden years. Now we need to come up with an equally compelling image that encourages people to work longer and directs them to areas most in need of talent." Source: Boston Globe |
| Canada Looks at Immigrant Language Competency |
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OTTAWA, CANADA Immigration minister Jason Kenney says immigrants should be able to speak either English or French before seeking Canadian citizenship. The immigration minister's calls for stricter language requirements come as the federal government is looking for ways to improve its programs.
"Someone who has been here 15 years and can't speak English or French is basically locking themselves out of the vast majority of jobs and is isolating themselves socially. That's a tragedy," Kenney said after speaking at an immigration conference in Calgary in March. "We should look at ways we can increase the requirements for linguistic competencies for immigrants and citizens." Kenney said there are too many cases of people becoming Canadian citizens who can't speak either French or English, despite rules requiring competence in either official language. "What we need is to be relaxed about our diversity, see it as a great strength, but also focus on the things that unite us as Canadians," Kenney said. Some expressed concern about Kenney's musing on additional language rules. "I would like to know what he defines as a working knowledge of the language," said Isabel Gibbins, dean of English-as-a-second-language programs at Bow Valley College in Calgary. "You can have a working knowledge that enables you to go shopping and talk to a doctor, but if you want to be an engineer or a doctor, you need to have a much higher level of language training." With countries competing for skilled workers, Gibbins fears imposing more language requirements will make Canada a less attractive destination. Kenney said the government already provides free language training to those who want it. The cost of an English class isn't the only barrier many immigrants -- especially women -- face to language training, said New Democratic immigration critic Olivia Chow. "A big part of it is when they get into the country, we no longer provide language classes with child care and transportation and a bit of income support. Women are often stuck in the house. Someone has to take care of the kids." She said that any comprehensive language-training program must provide other types of support such as income, childcare, or transportation to be effective. Source: Canwest News Service |
| Camden Police Get Set for High-Tech Devices |
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CAMDEN, NJ City police are getting the aid of new crime-fighting technologies like gunshot detection software thanks to more than $2 million in federal funding. Officials announced the funding will go to pay for technologies like the gunshot detection system, a digital crime mapping system, license plate readers, and thermal imaging equipment at a press conference at police headquarters Monday.
"This money is a lifeline," said Attorney General Anne Milgram. Officials said the different technologies, which are all supposed to come on line this year, are geared toward directing police presence toward the most dangerous parts of the city. "The resources obtained from these funds will enhance our efforts to fight violent crime and return the streets back to our community," said Police Chief Scott Thomson. Senator Robert Menendez secured $1 million of the funding through federal appropriations. The department is eligible for an additional $1.13 million through grant funding in the federal economic stimulus bill. "This funding brings the Camden Police Department the help they need to do their job." Thomson said the department has also applied to the federal Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for funding to hire additional officers. He said he hopes to hire between 35 and 50 officers to supplement the department's diminished force. Three years ago the department had about 415 officers. Currently there are about 380 active-duty officers. Milgram and others said the new technologies will go a long way in helping fill some of the gaps and continue a recent downturn in violent crime. "Technology in modern law enforcement is a force multiplier." Source: Courier-Post |
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