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Police officers in Newark didn’t fire a single shot in 2020, which means the city did not have to pay to settle police brutality cases, according to
Crime has reportedly dropped in the city with police recovering nearly 500 illegal firearms from the street last year.
Aqeela Sherills, head of the Newark Community Street Team, a group consisting of former offenders working to actively defuse violence in the city’s most violent areas, said “This is significant.”
People walk by a police car in downtown on May 13, 2014 in Newark, New Jersey. Voters in New Jersey’s largest city go to the polls on May 13, to choose a new mayor following Democrat Cory Booker’s departure to the U.S. Senate. Newark, which is approximately 12 miles from New York City, is struggling with a rise in violent crime and unemployment. Shavar Jeffries, 39, and Ras Baraka, 44, are the two democrats running for the job in the heavily Democratic city. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)