By Scott St. Clair | The Save Jersey Blog
If I lived in Newark and didn’t already have one, I would immediately buy a gun – lots of guns. After bungled attempts by police director Eugene Venable to “clarify” Chief Anthony Campos’s new policy of directing officers to refuse to respond to some criminal complaints, the message is clear: When it comes to crime, Newark residents, you are on your own.
Sure, victims of simple assault, criminal mischief and harassment can file complaints in municipal court, but that’s cold comfort. Indeed, to a crime victim, it smacks more of official indifference than “protect and serve.”
To criminals the message is game on – confused police incapable of fulfilling government’s primary responsibility of keeping citizens safe and secure means thugs own the night.
Nothing unique here. Instead, it’s the most recent example of official policy and a lax criminal justice system giving an edge to offenders while governments aggressively infringe upon the self-defense rights of citizens. The people are consigned to an edge-of-despair victimhood – let them eat cake.
If Newark’s police and city government won’t do the job, then the people have every right to take matters into their own hands, and the first step in that process is to arm themselves.
I see a legitimate legal argument to fight for concealed carry if this is true.
This isn’t true.
Keep them scared and on the govt tit
N.J.S.A. 59:2-4, N.J.S.A. 59:5-4, and N.J.S.A. 59:5-5
This has been practiced “unofficially” for many years, it’s just now in writing.
In any event, these low priority assignments at times would receive better response timing if people did go to the local police department or Courts and file a complaint. .
Anyone that votes for Booker is insane