Mayor Healy, your teevee ads talk tough on crime, yet, there have been a spate of mob attacks recently, have you heard?

We see your election ads touting your record on crime as all that and a bag of chips. The problem the Jersey City Desk is having is then continually reading about young thuggish mobs attacking, robbing and beating Jersey City residents. Normally when an elected official is running for re-election on a "the crime rate is down" platform, they sit on these zoo animals and step up police patrols and keep the citizenry safer. We're just not seeing that now. Several incidents, from this one, to this one, to this one, to this one to the gang of six to ten hooded or masked crooks who robbed a resident of his cell phone and watch near Kennedy and Van Winkle a few weeks back make your ads look like so much bluster.

If you can't have your police force step up to the plate and do more to PREVENT/catch/prosecute these crimes NOW, before an election, it makes us wonder how bad things may get after the election. You know, once the risk of the voters judgement is no longer such a driving force in your political life. Dammit Mayor, it's close, REAL close to becoming unsafe to walk the streets of Jersey City after dark. All its gonna take is one of these scumbag thug mobs to kill somebody and Johnny's gonna drop some money and put up a billboard along the 1 and 9 and ask why you can't keep us safe while you're claiming to do it.

Statistics are fine things, go tell the crime victims in these stories crime is down on your watch Mayor Healy and see how comforted they become.