OUT OF
TOWN COPS
weight. Chief among the governor’s concerns was the structure
of the policing contract, says Ian
Leonard, a member of the Board
of Freeholders.
“The governor’s saying this is
too expensive,” Leonard says. “And
when someone else is writing the
checks to you, you know, he or she
— as my mother used to say — who
holds the pen holds the power.”
To drive the plan forward, its
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backers have gone on the offensive, depicting the existing police
contract as laden with extravagant
perks negotiated by the union in
better days and out of step with
the current hard times. They say
they have identified between $14
million to $16 million in savings
to be had by cutting out wasteful
“fringe” pay from $60 million in
annual police spending in the city.
“Previous administrations, they
gave the store away,” Capelli says.
Keashen, the Camden County
spokesman, provided HuffPost
An officer
makes the
rounds,
checking for
any illegal
activity
in one the
city’s many
deserted
residences.