The officer, a 14-year veteran of the force, was trying to break up a fight just as a concert was letting out.
He was taken to Cooper Hospital with a wound to the chest and is listed in critical condition.
Two men were arrested and charged in the crime.
Residents who live in the Waterfront community say that Saturday night's stabbing is only part of a larger problem.
"I mean it's rude. Would you like it if somebody came to an event at your neighbor's house and used your house for a bathroom?" resident Bibbi Stokes said.
Stokes lives on North Front Street in Camden's Cooper Grant neighborhood, about two blocks from the Waterfront.
She and her neighbors are up in arms after country music fans attending a concert at Wiggins Park Saturday trashed their neighborhood.
"The crowd was really rowdy. The people were very rude. They were going to the bathroom all over the place, throwing their garbage all over the place," said Bibbi.
"People were running around with confederate flags in their pickup trucks, public drinking," said Andrew Adams, the head of the District Council Collaborative Board.
The board is a community group that works with neighbors, police, and the city on quality of life issues.
"From some residents, we heard there were some racial slurs being used," said Adams.
After this weekend, with a Camden Police officer stabbed as concert goers left the area around the Susquehanna Bank Center, and the trashing of their neighborhood, residents are looking for help controlling what goes on when thousands of out-of-towners descend on the city for events.
"People, they have no respect for anyone's property. They were just feeling that they could do anything they want," said resident AdeZsa Davis.
"We want people to come to the waterfront and have a great time, but you can't have that kind of behavior happening," Adams said.
