This is what I don't get about the APP. This is a major positive story
for Asbury Park. There's no mention of Asbury Park or the
surveillence system in the title, and they didn't include the "Story
Chat" link in the article either. Everytime it's a story about a crime
though, they make sure to include Asbury Park in the title, and they
always have the Story Chat link.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ALSO IN PROPOSAL: $100G for surveillance in Asbury
>
> ASSEMBLYMAN: Running for state Senate in November
> Kean vows tougher gun-trafficking laws
> Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/7/07
> BY NANCY SHIELDS
> COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
>
> ASBURY PARK Republican Assemblyman Sean T. Kean Monday said he
> will introduce legislation to toughen gun-trafficking laws and also
> seek $100,000 to fund camera surveillance equipment for Asbury Park.
>
> Both measures will not be introduced until the Legislature
> reconvenes in November. Kean is running for the state Senate seat in
> the November general election being vacated by Sen. Joseph A.
> Palaia, R-Monmouth, and will face Democratic former Assemblyman John
> Villapiano.
>
> Kean made his announcement standing with a cadre of local, county
> and state law enforcement authorities outside the West Side
> Community Center on DeWitt Avenue a site where two young men were
> killed in November 2005 and March 2006.
>
> "This increases penalties for individuals breaking the law," Kean
> said of his proposal for stiffer penalties for selling illegal
> guns. "We want to create a deterrent."
>
> Kean said that trafficking in sawed-off shotguns currently is a
> third-degree crime with no presumption of incarceration, and his
> proposal would change that crime to a second-degree offense with a
> five- to 10-year prison sentence.
>
> He also proposed toughening the sale of illegal handguns, now a
> fourth-degree offense, by making it a third-degree crime with a new
> penalty that would include the possibility of prison time.
>
> Kean's proposed bill also would create a new classification and a
> second-degree crime to acquire a firearm outside of New Jersey,
> bring it into the state and unlawfully sell it.
>
> "This is a clear case of our (current) laws being inadequate for the
> problems at hand," the assemblyman said.
>
> For his second proposal, Kean said he'll seek $100,000 from the
> state law and public safety budget to pay for the purchase and
> installation of security cameras in the city.
>
> "This is a priority this is an emergency," he said.
>
> City Councilman James Keady, a proponent of the new camera
> surveillance, said the cameras can give the city "another tool in
> our tool chest."
>
> First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw said the
> county supports the funding for stationary cameras.
>
> "We believe that would have a substantial likelihood of protecting
> the city and give police a very valuable tool in the investigation
> of a violent crime," Warshaw said.
>
> Death by gunfire in Asbury Park the past two years often has been
> tied to young people obtaining guns and shooting each other over
> matters of drugs, money, gangs or personal issues.
>
> On Monday, Steven Anderson, a 24-year-old city resident, stopped to
> see a friend on De-Witt about the time of Kean's news conference.
> Anderson said he is pessimistic that any enforcement measure can get
> guns off the streets.
>
> "It's not going to stop," Anderson said. "One person gets locked up
> and five more (guns) are sold on the street. . . . I've lost a
> couple of friends here. As long as the drugs are out here, the guns
> will be here. They use them for protection."
>
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