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NJ attorney general announces plan to combat surging violent and gun crime in Trenton
 [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 2013-08-17 |
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