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Prospect Park PBA Issues No-Confidence Vote As Mayor, Council Seek Civilian Police Director
There are many reasons why you can easily count the number of police directors in New Jersey’s 564 municipalities.
These are many of the same reasons that Prospect Park’s police union has declared a vote of no-confidence in the borough’s mayor, as well as its council majority, who are about to place a civilian in charge of their police department.
Police and public safety directors often work well in cities – take Paterson, for instance, which has nearly 160,000 residents, or Newark, which has more than 300,000 residents and nearly 1,300 police officers.
Directors in the cities are ordinar…
