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-Land of the Free
NJ attorney general announces plan to combat surging violent and gun crime in Trenton
2013-08-17
[NJ] "The first thing we said to each other was, 'That's enough,'" Hoffman said of his conversation with Fuentes.

Together they decided to fast-track efforts already in the works to send more state troopers into Trenton to aid the city's police force, down 140 positions following mass layoffs nearly two years ago.

"The colonel said, 'I'm getting my people in there now,'" Hoffman said yesterday afternoon during a news conference at the Hughes Justice Complex.

Before dawn yesterday, more than 60 state troopers, sheriff's officers and federal agents descended on Trenton for a warrant sweep that ended with 15 fugitives in handcuffs, Hoffman said.

It was the leading edge of a new, stepped-up deployment of the State Police in the capital city to combat surging violent and gun crime that has left 29 people dead and more than 150 people shot in 2013. The effort is being paired with a new directive from the attorney general's office that makes harsher prison sentences for gun crimes mandatory, even in the cases of plea bargains.
Posted by:Fred

#7  It's NJ they're already disarmed.
Posted by: Hellfish   2013-08-17 23:00  

#6  The first thing we need to do is to disarm all the law abiding citizens
It's Trenton, the State capitol; do they HAVE any law abiding citizens?
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-08-17 22:29  

#5  They've clear cut and strip mined the economic and social structures to maintain the graft to keep the power

Now that's a keeper.
Posted by: Shipman   2013-08-17 15:19  

#4  Well said, p2k!
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-08-17 14:44  

#3  It's an analogy of 'heroic' efforts to save a dying patient who's on life support and unlikely to face any recovery. Even if they pull through, they'll be a shadow of their former being.

Cities live and die. That's history. Unfortunately, the same people who push everyone else with 'green' philosophy about natural environments spend ungodly amounts of limited resources to 'revive' human environments that are unsustainable. They've clear cut and strip mined the economic and social structures to maintain the graft to keep the power, and they wonder why all the productive and contributory citizenry left.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-08-17 08:10  

#2  Precisely what will take place if the odious Hildebeast is elected as POTUS, possibly sooner if the fiscal wheels fall off and a Cairo scenario takes place.

Chicago's bond rating slipped this week. They're sinking under the spending and pension loads, just like Detroit and many other urban hives.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-17 03:35  

#1  "The first thing we need to do is to disarm all the law abiding citizens. That's what they do in Chicago, New York, DC, and all the big cities".
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2013-08-17 00:40  

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