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Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
Violent crime is at a 50-year low.
This is amazing.
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Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.
As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.
![Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) (1948) by Woody Guthrie
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
the oranges piled up in their creosote dumps.
You're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
to spend all their money to wade back again.
[Chorus]:
Good bye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita,
adiós mis amigos, Jesús y María.
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
and all they will call you will be "deportees."
Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted.
Our work contract's out and we've got to move on.
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border, they chased us like outlaws,
like rustlers, like thieves.
(chorus)
The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon.
A fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills.
Who are all these friends who are scattered like dried leaves?
The radio said they were just "deportees."
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