NEWARK
BLUES
HUFFINGTON
08.05.12
Officers are struggling to secure the city amid escalating crime and a dwindling police force.
ing he repeatedly asked the governor and legislature to moderate the
deep cuts in aid to the city and to
provide more help on public safety,
to little avail. “Some of those cuts
were justifiable, and some of those
cuts were not,” he says. “We as a
state should be finding ways to prioritize public safety better than we
are right now.”
“THIS IS REAL”
Newark typically sees a spike in violent crime during the summer, as
bored and frustrated young people
commit robberies, fight in the streets
or shoot at each other from cars in
drug-related disputes. In a bid to
disrupt the violence, the police department’s latest strategy is to flood
crime-prone areas with cops in a
high-visibility show of force during
the evening and early morning hours.
Al Burroughs, a Newark police