Saturday, October 08, 2005

Lakewood's ticket controversy

Asbury Park Press :

The township attorney this week disclosed that an administrative review continues into why 78 summonses were dismissed in a ticket-fixing controversy, news that caught the local police union president off guard...
..at Thursday's meeting, Secare and committee members defended themselves against accusations that the ticket-fixing saga was a byproduct of favoritism to the township's large Orthodox Jewish population.The Rev. Kevin Nunn, who leads the Lakewood Improvement Association — a civil rights group that proclaims to speak for the "socially and economically deprived" — has repeatedly and loudly preached that the township's Police Department discriminated against minorities. (Y.O.: Jews aren't "deprived" and "minorities?)
Nunn said he believed the 78 summonses were dismissed because the defendants were Orthodox Jews...
The new policy was needed after an internal affairs investigation that began in February after a township police officer learned that three tickets issued to Rabbi Usher Z. Feiner of 14th Street had been dismissed without the issuing officer's knowledge...
posted by Yeshiva Orthodoxy
at 7:56 PM

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

O.J. Jews aren't "deprived" and minorities?

No, they are far better off socio-economically than African Americans, and I don't think they are are an especially small minority in Lakewood.

7:28 AM  
Blogger Yeshiva Orthodoxy said...

Let's not divide here by class, race, economics.
It's silly and self defeating.

2:21 PM  

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