That is what happens when you have diminished police presence! Thank God no one was seriously hurt...

Yup. Fair Lawn is the only town in America that has robberies.

Nice job FLPD and Walgreens staff.

Chris your sarcasm is shadowed by pure ignorance

Hahahaha… your posts have become laughable at this point. If you click your name you can see you make like 10 posts a day complaining about something. Now here’s a heroic article of one of our policemen doing a great job and you have to turn it into a political issue. What you wrote doesn’t even make sense, the crime was stopped and the man was arrested (that’s not a good example of not having enough cops to get the job done). Do you want a policeman in every store and every street corner 24 hours a day, cause im pretty sure we cant afford that.
Im curious, with all this time you spend on patch complaining why don’t you actually go out in the community and do something. Can you name any volunteer work you’ve done recently? I saw you commented about those kids who were arrested about 100 times. If you care so much about drug use and our youth in the community why don’t you start a volunteer group where you educate our local children on why they shouldn’t use drugs? Im assuming it’s because you are lazy and rather complain about the issues from the comfort of your computer chair.You are exactly what I teach my children not to be. If they want something done they will go out and do it, not bitch about it so someone else does it for them.
Sorry to write this on a great article about our heroic officer, GREAT JOB sir and keep up the good work. But this adolpho guys a real head case

And by "diminished police presence", you mean "no police officer stationed in every business in town 24 hours per day"? Or do you mean "only six officers respond to a shoplifting complaint"? Seems to me this incident is an example of things working as they should. (Though I hope Walgreens employees don't feel obligated to risk their lives over a bunch of disposable razors. Pretty gutsy of them, though, I will say.)

You dopes are missing the point! Having more Police presence would push these criminals elsewhere!!! Instead they flock to Fair Lawn because while the poor cops that ARE working deal with situations like this. Other areas go without patrol or police. I COMMEND the Officers of Fair Lawn for keeping up with this element while the Governing Body under Democratic rule devalued their purpose. I suggest you people wake up and take a look at how many serious crimes of violence have occurred since the layoffs !!

I have vast hope for the new regime. And faith tbat they will bring Fair Lawn back to what it once was

I think six officers responding is very good. I'll remind Adolpho he'd have a much better argument if none of these perpetrators have been apprehended. When crime does happen, our police have been catching the criminals. Luckily our officers are dedicated enough to work both on and off duty and we can pay them enough to live in town. You cannot correlate less officers with an increase in crime. There are too many other factors involved that you prefer to ignore.

Another Paterson creep giving out police a hard time. That element is bleeding over more and more. Could be the economy and it could be because its easy in and out. I do think if you need to send 6 officers to one place, and believe me, I know it was necessary, I think some more wouldnt hurt. I'd rather pay for that over some other items.

Adolph,

For real? Ignorance? Seriously? Sarcasm? Have you checked your posts? Any? Some? All? For real? Seriously?

Marty,

If there just wasn't so much paperwork and legal crap involved every time they pulled their weapon and......... I'll leave it at that.

If criminals knew police had more freedom to point, click and shoot, I bet there would be less criminals.