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| In some North Jersey towns, these are among the basic tools for fighting a wave of house burglaries. |
Can anyone find even a single word on the front-page of The Record today on what police departments in North Jersey are doing to prevent house burglaries?
Did you find any mention in the elaborate photo and text package of roving undercover or plainclothes officers or prosecutors and sheriffs setting up a pawn shop to catch the suspects red-handed (A-1 and A-8)?
I don't know whether the two reporters whose bylines appear on Page 1 are inexperienced or seasoned.
Before noon today, I saw a Leonia police SUV stationed a block away from a slowly moving funeral procession of fire vehicles in Bogota, and at least one of the officers was drinking coffee from Dunkin' Donuts.
Talk about reinforcing a stereotype.
What, me worry?
Gottlieb is downplaying a looming budget crisis, relegating another story on Governor Christie's position to A-3 today.
The Democrats' Assembly majority leader, Lou Greenwald, D-Camden, is quoted as saying:
"Everything is falling down around this governor and he's incapable of recognizing he is protecting two-tenths of 1 percent of the population" -- a reference to the GOP bully's refusal to approve an income-tax surcharge on millionaires.
Bad headline
The worst headline of the day appears on the front of Sykes' Local section:
Englewood school protest returns
Prompting many readers to ask themselves, Return from where, vacation?
Readers must pitch in
That headline and a photo on L-3 today may be part of Sykes' and Sforza's focus on participatory journalism, which attempts to engage the reader in what little local news appears in the Woodland Park daily.
The L-3 accident photo, taken around 10 p.m., shows lights and a lot of first responders standing around.
Readers are asked to send in what else they can see in the photo in the hope of winning lunch with Sykes and Sforza in the cafeteria.
A similar contest is being held for the business photo on L-8 that is missing a caption.
On L-6, a brief describes how three burglars attacked an Englewood woman in her Jones Road home.
Hackensack news? It's on vacation, and readers are hoping it returns soon.
Well noted Victor about the lack of police activity in solving burglaries. A neighbor's house was a victim about a year ago and the cop's reply in filling out the report was "it happens".
ReplyDeleteRight. And the gendarmes in Paris munch on croissants while on duty, right Marty??