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Likewise, Hamilton Mayor Glen Gilmore said that while it’s been suggested that we cant arrest
our way out of this problem ... we can surely make a dent in this problem by making as many
arrests as we can, by taking as many of these bad guys off the street as we can.
Senator Shirley Turner said the county is like the wild, wild west everybodys got a gun. We
need more resources. Too much money is being utilized on Homeland Security, and were not
devoting enough resources to fighting the terrorism on our streets. I live in Lawrence Township.
Were not safe out here. The gangs are moving into the suburbs.
Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman said gang activity knows no borders here. And she
said officials must get into our school districts earlier, dealing with the young people who are
being recruited at 10, 11 and 12, and intervene.
Our kids have got to have prevention activities; our kids have got to know that there are
alternatives to belonging to gangs, she said,.
She urged that a 17-piece chunk of anti-gang legislation be passed to deal with this issue which
is killing our society.
Hughes said he’d spoken with Gov. Jon Corzine about creating a special unit where violent,
dangerous inmates can be kept outside of the countys 100-year-old system where we could not
have anticipated the level of violence within the county jail.
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