It's quite obvious that no police presence will keep you safe on Communipaw Avenue

Time after time after time we read about citizens out walking on Communipaw Ave. (not just in the wee hours) that are being robbed, stabbed, shot, kicked and left for dead. Sometimes it's one person committing the crime, more often it's a band of roving young jagoffs. For whatever reason, you the Jersey City resident cannot feel safe all the way from the 1&9 out to where Comminipaw ends just past the New Jersey Turnpike. The entire length is seeing crime spikes.

We will ask police if they have stepped up patrols on Commumipaw Avenue, especially using that handy computer program that Mayor Healy was touting in his last run for re-election in which he claimed the police database using algorhythms works to put police where they could prevent some of this crime. Our guess is that they'll have no comment about exactly HOW the system works and exactly how much crime it's stopping but we'll see. In the meantime call your city councilperson, often. Call the mayor's office, often. Call the non-emergency police line and let them know Communipaw has become an unsafe thoroughfare that cuts through the heart of this city. Maybe some tendrils of crime spring up on this street outta Greenville but case and fact, Communipaw is far too long to JUST be Greenville troublemakers. If you see someone suspicious call it it, you have a cell phone.

What is happening right now all up and down Communipaw Avenue is a cancer spreading to surrounding blocks and neighborhoods where crime is being allowed (oh yes it is) to grow and strengthen it's grip on neighborhoods where families once lived and hung outside now live under the "Snitches get Stitches' rule of the streets when criminal enterprise moves in.

We call on our mayor and chief of police to police this wreck and use WHATEVER FORCE IS NECESSARY to clean this up. We simply can't have this in a prospering, growing Jersey City.