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The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey crime family or the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, [2] Newark, West New York [4] and the surrounding areas.
Higgins praised New Jersey's strength at keeping crime rates down, which he attributed to factors like better pay and more stringent screening when hiring new officers. Smaller departments are at ...
The Genovese crime family's New Jersey faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Genovese crime family who control organized crime activities within the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey faction is divided into multiple crews each led by a different caporegime who oversees illegal criminal activities in labor racketeering ...
Anthony Provenzano (May 7, 1917 – December 12, 1988), also known as Tony Pro, was an American mobster who was a powerful caporegime in the Genovese crime family New Jersey faction. Provenzano was known for his associations with Jimmy Hoffa [ 1 ] due to Provenzano's job as an International Brotherhood of Teamsters president for Local 560 in ...
Union City is a city in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the city was the state's 18th-most-populous municipality, [23] with a population of 68,589, [12] [13] an increase of 2,134 (+3.2%) from the 2010 census count of 66,455, [24] [25] which in turn had reflected a decline of 633 (−0.9%) from the 67,088 counted in the ...
After being released from what many saw as the result of a betrayal from JFK, Battle settled in Union City, New Jersey, [2] and began establishing a presence as the leader of a family of Cuban-American criminals involved in organized crime activities from loansharking and gambling to drug trafficking and murder.
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]
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of New Jersey.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 550 law enforcement agencies employing 33,704 sworn police officers, about 389 for each 100,000 residents.