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As of 2013, there was a reported 192,971 crimes in theU.S. state ofNew Jersey, including 401murders. This is an overall decrease in total crimes reported, but an increase in murders.[1]
TheFederal Bureau of Investigation has afield office in New Jersey, located inNewark.[2]
Camden has been ranked among the most dangerous cities in the United States in 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2009.[3]
Capital punishment is not applied in this state.[4] New Jersey was the first state to repeal the use of the death penalty after theSupreme Court restored the use of capital punishment in theGregg v. Georgia case.[5]
Akbar Pray,Newark resident, was sentenced to life in prison in 1990 for leading a drugs gang that had dominated the city's drug trade since the early 1970s.
