Crime in New Jersey

As of 2013, there was a reported 192,971 crimes in the U.S. state of New Jersey, including 401 murders. This is an overall decrease in total crimes reported, but an increase in murders.^[1]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a field office in New Jersey, located in Newark.^[2]

By location

Camden

Camden has been ranked among the most dangerous cities in the United States in 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2009.^[3]

Capital punishment laws

Capital punishment is not applied in this state.^[4] New Jersey was the first state to repeal the use of the death penalty after the Supreme Court restored the use of capital punishment in the Gregg v. Georgia case.^[5]

Drugs

Akbar Pray, Newark resident, was sentenced to life in prison in 1990 for leading a drugs gang that had dominated the city's drug trade since the early 1970s.

References

^ "New Jersey Crime Rates 1960 - 2013". The Disaster Center. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
^ "Local FBI Offices". FBI. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
^ Hirsch, Deborah (24 November 2009). "Report ranks Camden most dangerous U.S. city". Courier Post. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
^ "Facts about capital punishment - the death penalty". religioustolerance.org. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
^ Richburg, Keith (14 December 2007). "N.J. Approves Abolition of Death Penalty; Corzine to Sign". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 February 2012.