What is going on in Fairlawn?

Sad story to hear all of this happened here in town.

Yet, without the reporting of Patch, we might not have known about this for days.

I guess advertising improved patrols in the other part of town was an invite...... Good thing we subsidize the pool instead of properly staffing the police deptartment.

the Bergen County Deputy Chief of Staff to County Executive Donovan (see drug and bong story)/Fair Lawn Mayor Barratta and also Bergen County Adminstrator/Deputy Mayor Trewinski said they were going to make government smaller, so they must continue to cut police services and salaries. This is there time to cut the police, cut more public safety. cut,cut cut...

Delgado, you should really be embarrassed of what you write on the patch. You are no better the former republican who was kicked out of the fair lawn republican club. He embarrassed himself by attacking councilwoman swain's family which was completely unacceptable and inappropriate and your pathic attempt to connect the mayor to county executive Donovan's son's problems are just as pathic. You are a sad little political hack, but secondly you are completely wrong the republicans in fair lawn have not called for cuts to PD as opposed to the prior administration which did cut PD.

Delgado, you are a sad little man. Even you can not be pathetic enough to say the unfortunate matter involving the county executive's son has anything to do with any fair lawn elected official. people like you are what is wrong with politics. It must be easy to say such awful things behind a fake name I wonder if you would have such courage behind your real name. Your unfounded comment about a cover up shows how little class and integrity you have. Your attempt to connect our Mayor to the matter the county executive's son shows that you are the lowest common denominator. I notice you didn't counter my factual statement that you lied about republicans cutting PD.

Brent, you are right about delgado, but wrong about the police. If we had an averaged sized forced, we would have 73 officers, we had 64 in 2009 and are down to 55. Chief Rose asked for 4 new officers, we have a proposed hiring freeze. You maybe technically right that our party has not cut the PD, but we do keep it under staffed which is just as bad.

Mr Paine, Trawinski voted to layoff the 4 new officers 2 years ago.

This is what poor management gets. Why is the chief still here? He is a big do nothing and now we are paying for it. Understaffed and no confidence leads to this.

Maybe if the cops weren't parked in the woods behind TJ, behind the ambulance corps or a dozen other hiding spots and actually doing patrol they might have seen something too. More cops is NOT the only answer.

How do you know they're not on a dinner break or just a break? Sometimes they might be finishing up a report in the car. I'd rather have them doing that than possibly costing us OT to do it. Besides, do you really think they're just loafing around in the woods for 8 hours? Do you have any idea how many calls they get per shift? 2 calls simultaneously can pull a huge amount of resources from patrol. Even with proper staffing levels, you're not going to have one everywhere, all the time.

Well put Chris

im still trying to figure out how nobody saw anything gonig on right next to the 24 hour cvs. the criminals are either intelligent and plans out these crimes or they are completely careless and just get away by dumb luck

I took a snapshot of it when I went to CVS early that morning...it was of Man Hing right next door. The whole door was smashed in. Sad, sad. but looks like they are already open for business....last night I was coming home and saw the OPEN sign. Thats good. But yeah...glass everywhere, that looked awful.