Chase Street is the story of Camden, NJ, the county seat of Camden County, NJ and a city abandoned--by the state, employers, and its middle-class white residents and suburban neighbors--its people left to fend for themselves.

Chase Street is the story of Camden, NJ, the county seat of Camden County, NJ and a city abandoned--by the state, employers, and its middle-class white residents and suburban neighbors--its people left to fend for themselves and caught in a vortex of drugs and political corruption. Its title is derived from the fact that everyone in the city is in some kind of chase, whether it be for drugs, money, power or respect. In essence, almost every neighborhood in Camden--and many cities in New Jersey--are a "Chase Street."—Mercedes Diaz