Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Weekly town-by-town crime data made available online
Updated crime statistics for towns and counties in New Jersey will be made available more frequently than in the past, according to the State Police. Police will be updating an online database of crime stats weekly, or as often as local departments report their new information. In the past, statewide statistics on crime were updated only once per year in the annual Uniform Crime Report. Data for 2011 was released in December. “For the first time, we are able to give the public a sense of the current crime picture in their area. Even as preliminary data, this will be a great new tool for the public,” Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police Colonel Rick Fuentes said in a statement. The new data is available online here. It is currently…
Monday, December 31, 2012
NJ Spotlight has created an interactive map of 2011 crime rates in New Jersey
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Wall residents can easily compare how their municipality's crime rate in 2011 compared to neighboring towns with an interactive map created by NJ Spotlight. The map plots the total crime rate per 1,000 people for seven index crimes (violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and non-violent crimes are burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft) using data from the recently released 2011 Uniform Crime Report. Wall's crime rate per 1,000 residents was 18.2, well below Monmouth's 23.7 and the state's 24.7. Neptune and Asbury Park had the highest crime rates per 1,000 residents in 2011 among nearby municipalities, with 72.1 victims per 1,000 residents in Neptune and 95.6 in Asbury Park. Wall fared better than the …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Overall crime rate inches upward while county experiences a slight drop
Overall crime in Wall Township increased in 2011 from 2010, according to data released with the state's 2011 Uniform Crime Report. The increase was owed entirely to a jump in the number of nonviolent crimes recorded in the township, bucking statistics found in greater Monmouth County, where crime was on the wane from 2010 to 2011. However, Wall's experience is in keeping with what the state saw overall, as there was a 3 percent increase in overall crime in New Jersey from 2010 to 2011, with increases in murder, robbery and rape. Wall recorded 475 total incidents in 2011, up from 410 in 2010. However, the vast majority of crimes recorded were nonviolent — categorized as burglaries, larcenies, motor vehicle thefts and arson — with 459 …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Eric Kim died when his boat and "No Surrender" crashed
A man from the Colonia section of Woodbridge died after his boat and another boat collided on the ocean off Long Branch, state police said on Monday morning. Eric Kim, 31, died after his boat was struck off Long Branch by "No Surrender," a 38-foot boat piloted by Thomas Oloughlin, 44, of Princeton, on Saturday afternoon, said Sgt. Brian Polite. Kim's passenger, Soo Lee, 34, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, suffered cuts, but was not seriously injured, Polite said. Polite said police are not releasing the names of the passengers aboard "No Surrender," but did say that the pilot and passengers were not injured. Kim may have originally been taken to Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune for head injuries. He was later pronounced dead at …
Friday, January 20, 2012
Accident shuts Exit 100 for about an hour
A North Arlington woman was ejected from her car Friday morning after striking a light pole on a Garden State Parkway exit ramp in town, police said. Camille Bruno-Galanti, 58, was taken by Wall First Aid to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, with non-life threatening injuries, State Police Trooper Christopher Kay said. Bruno-Galanti lost control of her black, 2007 Nissan Altima on the southbound ramp of Exit 100 around 10 a.m., Kay said. The car struck a light pole and Bruno-Galanti was ejected. There were no passengers in the car and no other vehicles were involved, Kay said. The exit ramp was closed for about an hour following the incident, Kay said.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Woman was wanted on Florida arrest warrant
An Asbury Park woman who was wanted for crimes in Florida was arrested and jailed Thursday after a traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 98. Lashawnda D. Wright, 33, was taken to the Monmouth County Jail, Freehold Township, in lieu of $100,000 bail after being stopped by a State Police Trooper on the southbound Parkway at milepost 97.5, according to the arrest warrant. Wright was still jailed on Friday, according to jail records. Wright was wanted on a Holmes County, Fla., warrant for uttering a forged instrument, according to the arrest warrant.
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