Re-Accredit Newark's Police Academy

New Jersey Acting Attorney General John Jay Hoffman,

We, the citizens of Newark, N.J., are concerned about crime in our city. Newark currently has a total of 986 uniformed police officers compared with 1,131 in 2010. We feel strongly that Newark must hire additional police officers as quickly as possible to make our city streets safer. Newark's police recruits are trained at the Essex County Police Academy in Cedar Grove. But the Academy has a limited number of training positions available, greatly reducing the number of Newark recruits who can be trained at any given time. As residents of the largest city in Essex County, as well as the state, we agree with Mayor Ras Baraka and the City Council that Newark should have it's own police academy. Therefore, we are asking you, as the acting attorney general of New Jersey, to re-accredit the City of Newark's police academy, thus giving the city the ability to train more police recruits.

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Strongly Agree and support this effort to re-accredit The City of Newark NJ’s Police Academy. The Resident’s as well as visitor’s safety, and Future stability and quality of Life vastly Depend on the City’s self sustainabilty and progression to excel beyond the Demands of many Challenges the City faces on a Daily bases. Please hear Our voices…. As Residents,As Parents,As Children we Need all Our resources implemented to full potential and This one is considered critical to Our Community in General. Thank You and God Bless for World Peace.
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