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In Camden, police crackdown clogs court

The nine oak benches in Camden Municipal Courtroom No. 2 held a squirming crowd. Tightly packed, their thighs almost touching, some sighed impatiently.

Judge Teofilo Montanez-Santiago presides in Camden Municipal Court, where dozens of defendants in courtroom No. 2 wait to see him about tickets - for loud music, tinted car windows, trespassing, loitering, littering.
Judge Teofilo Montanez-Santiago presides in Camden Municipal Court, where dozens of defendants in courtroom No. 2 wait to see him about tickets - for loud music, tinted car windows, trespassing, loitering, littering.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer