The Jersey City Police Department has upped their traffic enforcement division from 10 cops to 19, with their initial summonses up 81 percent in the first week.
“Nearly everyone in Jersey City has a story about a driver speeding down their block or running a red light in front of a school, and for years the response from City Hall was that nothing could be done about it,” Mayor James Solomon said in a statement.
“We rebuilt the Traffic Enforcement Division on day one because that answer was never good enough, and now we have put more officers in the unit, and summonses went up 81% in a single week. Everyone deserves safe streets, and we are going to keep building this unit until reckless driving in Jersey City carries a real consequence.”…