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The Bergen County Prosecutor : Huge Spike in Car Thefts

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Hackensack NJ, An important message from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s office the staff of thge Ridgewood blog

Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti:

The Bergen County Prosecutor has noticed an increase in car thefts and car burglaries over the past few months.

Please remember to lock your car and take your key fob out of the vehicle. Always. 9PM Routine .

No neighborhood is too safe. And if you see something suspicious, notify your local police right away.

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Hunting of police officers must stop now!

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Heather Darling Morris County Lawyer 

“I have remained silent all week about the issue and only expressed my condolences for the family of the officers. This time I’m going to say that what has apparently become the hunting of police officers must stop now! Taking guns from people will not stop trucks, bombs or any of the other methods people have employed to cause harm to officers and others. This is a societal issue that needs to be addressed. The criminals have more rights than the law-abiding citizens. Those in a position to change the situation need to take action now. We need tougher sentencing for crimes and we also need better coping mechanisms for individuals. Simply medicating the world and permitting everyone to abdicate responsibility by claiming some random diagnosis is not solving any problems, it is only making things worse.”

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NJGOP Chairman calls for Legislative Hearings on Governor Murphy’s Storm Preparedness Failures

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Trenton NJ, After reports of N.J. kids stranded in schools, on buses late into the night and Troopers responding to at least 555 vehicle crashes as of late Thursday along with impassable roads across New Jersey NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt offered the following comment:

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Reader says Most of the taxpayers would like to see more police on foot patrol improving pedestrian crosswalk compliance

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Most of the taxpayers would like to see more police on foot patrol improving pedestrian crosswalk compliance and general community involvement at least in the dangerous business district .

They sit in these cacoon SUVs as part of their patrols but I agree we are paying too much
in taxes to not seek a more efficient use of our money on issues like overnight parking , and babysitting PSEG despite the per diem the town bills the utility while we the taxpayers fund their pensions and old plated
benefits .

The do a good job but in many ways we spend like drunken sailors in this town.Parking enforcement is fat on expenses too.

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Overdoses in NJ libraries — more signs of the opioid crisis

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By David Matthau July 6, 2017 2:13 AM

The opioid epidemic has gotten so bad in New Jersey that librarians are now being instructed to watch out for users overdosing inside a library bathrooms or behind rows of books.

“Our public libraries are obviously the most open building in a community, and we have had situations where librarians have had to call paramedics, for example, when someone has had an overdose,” said Pat Tumulty, the executive director of the New Jersey Library Association.

But there’s an upside to drug users finding safe spaces in libraries. People may come into a library seeking information about addiction, treatment and overdoses and “we’re very aware and very cognizant of making sure that we have the resources available.”

To deal with the opioid issue, Tumulty said, the association is teaming up with mental health experts.

Read More: Overdoses in NJ libraries — more signs of the opioid crisis | https://nj1015.com/overdoses-in-nj-libraries-more-signs-of-the-opioid-crisis/?trackback=tsmclip

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The 20 towns where cop salaries have risen the most this decade

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Updated June 05, 2017
Posted June 05, 2017

By Carla Astudillo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

New Jersey municipal cops now earn about 16 percent more than they did seven years ago, public employee salary data shows.

That hike of about $14,400 bumped the median cop salary to more than six figures.

However, experts say that spike is actually much slower than in years past due to police salary caps that were set in 2011.

Still, the median police officer salary in some towns increased more dramatically in the past six years than others.

NJ Advance Media compared each town’s most current active pension data from the end of 2016 to active pension data from March 2010 gathered by The Star-Ledger.

The towns with the biggest median cop salary increases have smaller, more experienced police forces with little turnover. The more veteran cops employed in a department, the more it drives up the median salary.

For example, in 2010, only two officers in Saddle River had more than 25 years of experience as public servant. As of 2016, there were five.

Below, we ranked the top 20 towns with the largest spike in median cop salaries.

https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/the_20_towns_where_cop_salaries_have_risen_the_most_this_decade.html?ath=a661ed5d8cb41fa9dc524c06f451a07d#cmpid=nsltr_strybutton

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FBI confirms the deadly costs of a ‘War on Cops’

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By Post Editorial Board

May 7, 2017 | 6:32pm

A new FBI report finds that the “War on Cops” is real and has deadly consequences.

Undertaken last year after a spate of cop-killings around the nation, the study confirms that areas across the nation have seen “de-policing” in the wake of protests that political leaders seemed to support.

“Law enforcement not only felt that their national political leaders [publicly] stood against them, but also that the politicians’ words and actions signified that disrespect to law enforcement was acceptable in the aftermath of the [Michael] Brown shooting,” the study notes.

“The Assailant Study — Mindsets and Behaviors” examines the men behind 50 cop-killings last year. Most of the perps were simply looking to avoid arrest, but a full 28 percent actively hated police and desired to “kill law enforcement.”

Several, including the killers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, were clearly inspired by the protests that began in Ferguson, Mo.

https://nypost.com/2017/05/07/fbi-confirms-the-deadly-costs-of-a-war-on-cops/

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Reader says For New Jersey Pensions at the Current Cash Burn Rate, the Funds will be Insolvent in Less than a Decade

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The math doesn’t work. The net asset value of the Pension Fund assets managed by the NJ State Investment Division was $72.9bn as of June 30, 2016. 41% of the 785,000 members in seven public pension systems are retired versus 51% of the members who are still working and contributing to the pension plans, while 8% are vested members no longer accruing benefits but not yet retired. That 41% of 785,000 = 321,850 retirees being supported by only 400,350 members still contributing to the plan, i.e. 1.24 workers per retiree. You need over 2 workers for every retiree to have a solvent plan, so already this is a mess with too few employees contributing to a system with too many retirees. Those 321,850 retirees draw annual pensions on average worth $31,070 but this number will explode as baby boomers retire through 2024. For example, note twelve of the fifteen +$100,000 a year public pension retirees in the Village of Ridgewood as of 2015 were police & fire, with only three from the BoE. But we just had seven more policemen retire in 2016. Once the baby boomers all retire, there are potentially less workers than retirees in NJ, which is the definition of a PONZI scheme with $10bn a year paid to plan beneficiaries vs. plan assets $72.9bn.

NJ pension funds cut checks to retirees worth over $10bn last year versus pension plan assets of $72bn. The problem is the benefits are too generous. At the current cash burn rate, the funds will be insolvent in less than a decade, with liabilities far in excess of plan assets. Think about that: we pay out over $10 billion per year in public pension benefits to retired public sector workers. So even with assets of over $70 billion, the system is fragile. Public pension plan and health care benefits need to be diminished before taxes can be raised further as we are already the highest taxed residents of any state in the nation. Start by lowering the assumed annual rate of return to 7%, use the updated actuarial mortality data to add 2-3 years of life expectancy to the liability. Then start moving all new hires to defined contribution pension plans like 401(k) plans to prevent politicians and unions from meddling with employee pension assets. If the pension assets are in the hands of the employees and not the state and municipalities, they will be protected. Then convert all current employees from Platinum to Bronze level health coverage, which is the equivalent of what is offered in the private sector. Only then can taxes be raised for funds specifically earmarked to close the pension liability gap.

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Reader asks Why does New Jersey have 70% more cops per capita than any other state?

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70% more cops per capita than any other state, making 50% more than the average cop in the US according to FBI data, why?

Many of those cops are in our suburbs manning speed traps to help pay for the cost of so many cops. So it’s a vicious circle – we’re actually paying people to drive up our auto insurance premiums just so they can justify their job.

Cut the police force by 50% by not replacing retiring cops, and put them on bronze level health benefits and 401(k) style defined contribution pension plans.

Then perhaps NJ goes up the rankings, our auto insurance premiums and taxes go down, and maybe we can afford some new investments in bridges, roads, tunnels and our schools instead of overpaying for public safety and public sector pensioners?

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Police: New Jersey man owes more than $56,000 in tolls, fees

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Published January 21, 2017
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TEANECK, N.J. –  Transit police say they’ve arrested a New Jersey man who avoided paying tolls nearly 900 times and owes more than $56,000 in unpaid tolls and fees.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police say an officer stopped Alesandel Rodriguez’s car Friday morning after it failed to post a payment in an EZ-Pass lane on the George Washington Bridge.

Authorities say the car was missing front and rear license plates, and a temporary New York tag inside the vehicle had expired.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/21/police-new-jersey-man-owes-more-than-56000-in-tolls-fees.html

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What investigation? N.J. court rules cops don’t even have to say if records exist

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By S.P. Sullivan | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on August 31, 2016 at 5:33 PM, updated September 01, 2016 at 8:15 AM

TRENTON — A state appeals court ruled on Wednesday that government officials don’t necessarily have to acknowledge the existence of a record when refusing to release it.

The three-judge panel sided with prosecutors in Bergen County, who responded to a request from a news organization by saying they could “neither confirm nor deny” they had documents related to a possible criminal case.

The court agreed that in some cases, even acknowledging a record exists can divulge sensitive information. The so-called Glomar response, originally invoked by the federal government in a matter of national security, has been finding its way into state courts in recent years, a trend free press advocates have called troubling.

At issue in Wednesday’s decision was a request made by the Community News, a weekly newspaper in northern New Jersey, for records held by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office regarding an individual who had been accused of sexual abuse but never criminally charged.

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/08/prosecutors_can_neither_confirm_nor_deny_nj_court.html?utm_content=New%20Campaign&utm_campaign=Observer_NJ_Politics&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=New%20Jersey%20Politics#incart_river_home

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Was killer depressed about the break-up of his marriage? Police arrest Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s ex-WIFE over massacre that left 84 dead as dramatic footage reveals moment he was killed in shoot-out

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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Terrorist uses lorry to mow down crowds during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice
Death toll currently stands at 84, 202 were injured, 52 are in a critical condition and 25 are on life support machines
ID card belonging to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a French Tunisian man, 31, from Nice, found next to his body
His cousin said Bouhlel, a father of three, told MailOnline he flouted every rule of Islam, beat his wife and took drugs
Police say terrorist’s wife Hajer arrested and in custody as officers work on his motives and if he had accomplices
At least 10 babies and children were killed, some in buggies, with least 54 children also being treated in hospital
Eyewitnesses said driver zig-zagged at 40mph to hit crowds of people who were sent flying or jammed under wheels

By MARTIN ROBINSON, UK CHIEF REPORTER and NICK FAGGE IN NICE and SARAH DEAN and JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 16:27 EST, 14 July 2016 | UPDATED: 14:07 EST, 15 July 2016

Police today arrested the wife of the ISIS fanatic who killed 84 people including at least ten children in Nice using a lorry and a handgun.

It has been revealed that killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, a French Tunisian and married father of three, was depressed about the break up of his marriage before he mounted pavements at high speed and ploughed through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice last night.

He had separated from wife Hajer some two years ago following a series of violent arguments, and he was said to have been upset in recent months as their divorce had been finalised.

Today Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said police have arrested his wife, as detectives try to establish his motives and if he had accomplices.

Dramatic footage released today shows the moment he was shot dead by five police officers in the 19-tonne lorry he used as a murder weapon on his mile-long killing spree.

One eyewitness filmed armed officers approaching the cab of the lorry and firing repeatedly through its windscreen and doors before it appears Bouhlel can be heard screaming after being hit by a police bullet and he died slumped in the passenger seat.

Witness Nadar El Shafei told the BBC: ‘He died inside the vehicle – I saw his head [hanging] out of the window, they kept shooting him from all sides just to be sure. Then they asked us to run away in case there were others inside the car or a bomb.’

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3691019/Several-people-injured-truck-crashes-crowd-Bastille-Day-celebrations-Nice.html#ixzz4EVUPOy9w

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5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks

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AARON BANDLER

The Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings have caused an uproar among leftists because they fuel their narrative that racist white police officers are hunting down innocent black men. But the statistics – brought to light by the superb work of Heather MacDonald – tell a different story.

Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.

1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or “were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force,” according to MacDonald in a speech at Hillsdale College.https://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler

2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According to MacDonald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.https://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler

3. The Post’s data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man…but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But MacDonald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:https://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler

4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.https://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler

5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to MacDonald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person. https://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler

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Police say officers have been targeted in Missouri, Georgia and Tennessee

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POSTED 4:22 PM, JULY 8, 2016, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, UPDATED AT 05:44PM, JULY 8, 2016

Police say officers have been targeted in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri in the aftermath of two high-profile killings of black men by law enforcement.

The attack in Tennessee occurred hours before the killing of five police officers in Dallas on Thursday night during a protest. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the attacker told authorities that he was frustrated by the recent killings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Police have not disclosed a motive in Friday’s attacks in Georgia and Missouri, which have been described as ambushes.

In a fourth attack early Friday, a motorist fired at a police car as the officer drove by. In all, four officers were wounded. The officer wounded outside St. Louis is in critical but stable condition. The wounded officers are expected to survive.

https://fox2now.com/2016/07/08/police-say-officers-have-been-targeted-in-missouri-georgia-and-tennessee/

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2 Snipers Ambush, Kill 5 Officers, Injure 7 in Dallas Following Peaceful Protest

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It is the the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001, NBC News reports

By NBC 5 Staff

Five officers are dead — four Dallas police officers and one Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer — after two snipers ambushed and opened fire on police at the end of a peaceful protest against nationwide officer-involved shootings Thursday night, officials say.

“This is a terrible blow to the city of Dallas. This is a terrible blow to the United States of America,” Rawlings said on the NBC’s “Today” show.

Rawlings said the suspect involved in an overnight standoff with police died after officers used explosives to “blast him out.”

Rawlings said he was not sure how the suspect died or what weapons were found on him. He said police have swept the area where the standoff took place and found no explosives.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Protests-in-Dallas-Over-Alton-Sterling-Death-385784431.html#ixzz4Don2vONb