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Five cops wounded in New Jersey shootout

(CNN) -- Five police officers were wounded and two suspects killed Thursday in a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, authorities said.

Two officers sustained serious injuries.
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:( Jersey City aka JC is only 20 min from me. I commute thru JC everyday and I was just in JC for happy hour with my long-long friend couple days ago. but thanks god no cops were killed.
 
Two suspects die, eight cops are hurt in Jersey City shootout

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JERSEY CITY -- Eight police officers were injured in an early morning shootout that left two suspects dead, police said.

Police spokesman Lt. Edgar Martinez said five officers were wounded and three were injured.

A city official who spoke the condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to release the information said one police officer is in critical condition.

The officers were taken to Jersey City Medical Center.

The incident started just after 5 a.m. at 24 Reed St., off Bergen Avenue, an area residents say is known for drug trafficking. Neighbors said they heard multiple shots and then the area was swarmed with police and SWAT officers.

Officials have scheduled a 10 a.m. news conference.
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damn drug trafficking.... this Drug War is getting more and more senseless & futile
 
10 to 20 shots heard in shootout with cops; that block is trouble, neighbor says

There were at least 10 to 20 shots fired in the shootout between Jersey City police and the two armed suspects at a Reed Street apartment this morning that left three cops injured, a neighbor tells The Jersey Journal.

Jose Melendez, 59, who lives at the corner of Bergen and Duncan avenues about half a block from the shootout, said he was awakened by the gunfire. He said he was too afraid to come out and see what was going on.

Four cops were injured in two incidents this morning. An earlier shooting of a cop by two armed people -- reported to be a man and a woman -- set off a massive manhunt for the two. A confrontation between cops and the pair left three more cops injured and the two suspects dead, a source said.

Hector Fuentes, 34, a neighbor of Melendez, said it was only a matter of time before this sort of incident happened.

"That street over there is no good -- drugs," Fuentes said. "People hang around every night and every day. I've been waiting for something like this to happen. Police are always around there, on the block.

Fuentes said he was on Reed Street yesterday to get his car and overheard one man tell another "Don't follow me -- the police are everywhere."

One man who was not identified told News 12 that he lives next door to the apartment where the shooting occurred and "I seen mad, mad blood."

Another woman, also not identified, told News 12 she saw cops on Bergen Avenue spot a man with a gun and chased him onto Reed Street "and then they started shooting at the cops."

Police spokesman Lt. Edgar Martinez said that a command post was being set up Downtown on Jersey Avenue near the Jersey City Medical Center, where the four wounded officers were taken.

Bergen Avenue from Fairmount Avenue to Montgomery Street is closed and numerous other streets around the scene are still blocked off while police continue to investigate.

A news conference is being held shortly at the Jersey City Medical Center.
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legalize drugs to take away the thugs economy.... just like when booze became legal again...
 
C.C.Sinned said:
legalize drugs to take away the thugs economy.... just like when booze became legal again...
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But there are still bootleggers, they just hide their breweries out in the middle of nowhere and they sell more potent booze for a lot cheaper than what you can get in a beer store. They make more money than the legal microbreweries, because they aren't paying taxes, and more people are willing buy their booze for less than what a beer store does.
 
Dixie said:
But there are still bootleggers, they just hide their breweries out in the middle of nowhere and they sell more potent booze for a lot cheaper than what you can get in a beer store. They make more money than the legal microbreweries, because they aren't paying taxes, and more people are willing buy their booze for less than what a beer store does.
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but still.... majority of people buy boozes from stores/bars
 
moonshine customers buy the risk of going blind or dying...


legalizing would cut the ammount of crime significantly. we should try it
 
C.C.Sinned said:
moonshine customers buy the risk of going blind or dying...


legalizing would cut the ammount of crime significantly. we should try it
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and free up a billion dollars budget too
 
Then let's legalize murder . . . we have a problem with that . . . how about sex with children, that's getting attention of some adults that do that to kids . . . why not legalize that?
 
pek1 said:
Then let's legalize murder . . . we have a problem with that . . . how about sex with children, that's getting attention of some adults that do that to kids . . . why not legalize that?
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legalizing drugs will signifigantly reduce the number off those murders. gun violence will be reduced. the number of death because of bad drugs will also go down.

taking a drug is a conscious choice of an individual adult. comparing it to the heinous acts child molestation and murder is like comparing nuclear missle to a vibrator :roll:
 
C.C.Sinned said:
legalizing drugs will signifigantly reduce the number off those murders. gun violence will be reduced. the number of death because of bad drugs will also go down.

taking a drug is a conscious choice of an individual adult. comparing it to the heinous acts child molestation and murder is like comparing nuclear missle to a vibrator :roll:
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And where is your research to back that up? Take a look at these statistics, which nearly blew me away: Drunk driving statistics
 
pek1 said:
And where is your research to back that up? Take a look at these statistics, which nearly blew me away: Drunk driving statistics
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wow thanks for the link of the LEGAL stimulant drug alcohol. there is more death by alcohol than most other drugs. it is a FACT. yet Niccotine addicts die most frequently and smoking is LEGAL. niccotine is a drug.

removing the commodity from the hands of dealers, gangs and other participants of organized crime, will prevent them from commiting the crime. less criminals making money from illicit narcotics means a reduction in all aspects of the narcotic trade. common sense :wave:

However, this will not affect other crimes.



America spends billions of dollars each year fighting the "war on drugs". We are not winning this war. The US has made progress, yes. winning, NO.

if the USA legalizes drug, regulates distribution, regulates additives for purity and taxes the commodities. we will be gain money instead of losing it.


fewer drug dealers, smuggling and homicides caused by the illicit drug trade.

the purity of the drugs will not contain other poisonous contingents, in turn will save lives in that aspect as well.


as for my research:
narcotic deaths per state found at the drug abuse warning https://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/pubs/mepubs/default.asp

narcotic distribution among each state. sourced from the DEA. there is a lot of dope out there :shock:

on this link you will see how that in the city of L.A. how non-gang homicides have decreased while gang homicides are on the rise despite crime rates in L.A. are falling, gang violence remains constant. it is an alaming trend.

American murder by the numbers


here is a big 108 page report about gangs
Gang crime is spreading “like a cancer,” according
to Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert S.
Mueller III.
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