Failing grades for Mayor Fulop on communications and crime -- UPDATED!

Disappointment, thy name is Steve Fulop, Mayor of Jersey City.

First, and this is an issue we've had to bring up before and trust us, we don't like to bag on Jersey City, we don't. We'd love to be positive and uplifting each and every day. Today we just can't. Despite what the mayor says, hiding in another one-way discussion on Facebook, crime is bad in our city. You can use any metric you want to Mr. Mayor to say it's "trending down" which tells us it's still far too fucking high. You made promises as a candidate to approach crime differently. What we've seen thus far is you appointing a police chief, getting rid of him, fighting him in court and, quite possibly, according to court documents you covered for a Jersey City cop's DUI to get the police union behind you again and basically made a hash of the JCPD. It's a mess. Johnny talks to cops on the street, he hears things. Let's just say, things are not good from the top down in the JCPD. It starts at the top with the guy more interested in pulling strings like a marionette rather than fully going after crime. When one is running for governor without saying so these kinds of "How will this look a year or two out on the campaign trail" questionable decisions get made. That is no way to police what will be New Jersey's largest city after the next census. There are at least ten cops downtown standing around construction sites picking their noses and sleeping in their cars (Johnny has pics of course or he wouldn't make that claim). Hey, there's an idea. Mayor Fulop promised the police would no longer be handling these lazy, easy stand-around jobs when he took office. He said a citizen group would handle this and get more cops out there, you know, TO FIGHT CRIME. Yeah, you're transforming the police, sure you are. If Johnny was Mayor those ten cops would be in a car patrolling The Heights or Greenville. Why didn't Mayor Healy have these same problems you ask? He wasn't secretly running for governor. As bad as he was he took crime seriously and met with the press when things went wrong. Which brings us to our next point;

Facebook is for cowards. Not for sharing pics of a night out or a day at the lake or some old kids pictures on a Throwback Thursday, it's fine for that. It's NOT fine however to hold one-way discussions with the citizens when people in your city are being shot. First, not everyone is on Facebook. Johnny for one gave it up four years ago. Here's a hint Mayor, hold press conferences, don't just send out Jennifer Morrill to say what you mean. Don't shy away from tough questions. You don't hold press conferences. How many press conferences have you held with someone not named the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board in NYC? We know from the Jersey Journal they have to pull teeth to get any schedule information or any info from your office. You're not communicating with your residents, you're simply not. Using a press mouthpiece and hiding on Facebook are unacceptable. At least for those of us Jersey City residents who expect more it is, just maybe not for all the advisors you've managed to sprinkle into city jobs, performing perfunctory half-measures just to keep them around you for your Drumthwackett run.

School's out for the summer Mr. Fulop and your report card isn't looking too good;
Communication D
Crime D
Marked improvements will be expected going forward. Have a nice summer Steve!

UPDATE 9:57 AM -- As to Johnny's point about the cops unnecessarily standing around construction sites, the JCPD cop smoking cigars in the middle of the street today with Mill Creek workers really drove that point home. Enjoy your smokes officer, it looks so good to see your commitment...to cigars.