Camden to disband police

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NJ-city-plans-to-disband-police-starting-anew-3887358.php

This city, long among the nation's poorest and most crime-ridden, is on the verge of dismantling its police department and starting anew with a force run by the county government.

City officials are making the move to increase the number of officers while keeping the cost the same by averting rules negotiated with a union that city officials have seen as unwilling to compromise. Unless the union — which is skeptical of the stated motivations for the change — reaches a deal with the county, no more than 49 percent of the city's current officers could join the new force and those that do will get pay cuts.