Approximately 100 tickets were once again issued in Lakewood last night, police tell TLS.
Yesterday evening was the second day of the joint enforcement. Approximately 100 tickets were also issued during the first day of the crackdown.
The Lakewood Police Department issued approximately 60 tickets, and the rest of the tickets were issued by the New Jersey State Police and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
The crackdown came in response to the many fatal accidents within the Township during 2017.
That’s bec they were giving out tickets to anyone that had a drop of snow on their cars. (I clean my whole car & hate when other ppl don’t but they were pulling over ppl with literally A drop of snow
The bottom line is we may not like tickets, but chamira sakanta m’isurah. If someone you loved would ch’v be hit by someone who blew a stop sign, you would have wished this driver was ticketed and taught a lesson before the incident.
Chief Meyer is a fair and honest person and is just trying to make Lakewood a better place. He is doing a great job so far.
While I generally will not post comments I feel the need to bring something to everyones attention. As a first-responder in Monmouth county. I can attest that the fatalities the prosecutors office keeps on speaking about all happened during Sabbath when the Jews are in fact NOT driving. Every single fatality happened over the weekend involving non Jewish drivers. most on rt 70. So please explain to me how having a crack down that starts AFTER the Sabbath ends, rather than from Friday night till Saturday night. Is NOT specifically targeting the Jewish community?? I am all for safe driving and ticketing those that break the law. But do it fairly and equally to EVERYONE not just the Jews. Who statistically in Lakewood are NOT the problem! Look there are more fatalities in Manchester on a given weekend, yet I do not see a crackdown there? if 90% of the fatalities are in fact on rt 70 why are they targeting the center of town? please answer me that before you say I am crying wolf!!
I don’t your problem . We should welcome a police crackdown on unsafe driving. The police are there for us.
They got tickets because they broke the law, not because they are Jewish. What exactly is your point?
FYI, Non Jews also drive on Saturday night…..
As a first responder in MONMOUTH COUNTY, you sure know a lot about OCEAN COUNTY accidents. Making up facts does not make it true,(unless you like CNN). Where are you getting your facts from?
Thank you Lakewood Police. Your the best
@unspoken: that’s because everyone loves the Jews.
kudos.
No need to kiss up to the police. We all want a safe Lakewood and Lakewood will be a safer place once we get rid of all the drug dealers/users in 08701.
No one has problems with giving tickets but people have a problem with being super aggressive about giving them out.
Saying or insinuating that if your pro the crackdown than your a more moral person is a false binary.
How is ticketing drivers for snow on their vehicles going to curb the fatal accidents?
This way they can see what is around them
There were a dui that were pulled as well as a drug bust due to this crackdown
My friend got pulled over last night for a muffler that was a bit too loud at a traffic light and was ticketed what does that have to with fatalities and stuff ? I think that a bit too far.
Actually, a loud muffler is a good reason to ticket somebody. Why should people have their sleep disturbed when that car drives by.
It is called noise pollution, its a law in NJ
How is ticketing drivers for snow on their vehicles going to curb the fatal accidents?
by Chassidisheshechita on 2017-12-17 at 6:38 pm
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Because when that snow freezes up snd slides off as a sheet of ice while your driving or breaking and kills or hurts someone, you can be charged with involuntary manslaughter or worse.
We need more of these crackdowns. It is about time some law and order is brought to our roads. Thanks PD we love you!!!
Bout time…put some cops on Shorrock…it’s a parkway cut through now..75 mph at times
Let me preface by saying that I am all for unsafe driving enforcement. However, enforcements like the one last night are counterproductive and defeat the purpose. What is the point of a ticket blitz targeting even minor infractions that are not real safety issues. If there is a message that the OCP office is trying to send it is not getting across. Is it that they want to punish the public for the sins of the few? As someone who hasn’t had a moving violation in over a decade, I know that it is impossible to dot every I and cross every T. As a careful driver, the only takeaway I had was that I was glad I was out of town for the night. As far as I am concerned the indiscriminate ticketing blitz was a waste of resources. What I think would be far more effective, would be a protracted campaign targeting those drivers who are creating an unsafe environment: reckless drivers, excessive speeding, perhaps cellphone usage etc.This would send the message that unsafe driving will be consistently targeted and will no longer be tolerated. That is a message that everyone can understand, not the muddled message that seems to have been sent last night.
What’s muddled….you break the law, you get a ticket. This is not indiscriminate, and certainly not a waste of resources.
We need to lower speed limit to 25 mph like in nyc.
@unspoken I don’t know where you got your “facts” from but they are wrong. These fatal accidents through out a week not just between friday night and Saturday night. Just a week ago a man was hit and killed on route 9 on a Saturday night and before that on a Friday around 4pm a man was killed crossing route 70. Please don’t make it seem like when Jewish people are on the roads everything is safer. The problem is lakewood residents drive crazy so out of towners feel thwy can drive just as crazy. At the end of the day one death is too many. Thank you to the police for trying to make it safer for people who drive and live in lakewood and those who walk through the town.
@guppy Listen to yourself. He did not say when the jews drive the roads are safer. He said this is an attack on the orthodox. Its obvious. You said so yourself ” Friday around 4pm a man was killed crossing route 70″ well FYI there were no patrols on rt 70 Saturday evening nor where there any on Shorrock where there is excessive speeding…. Why is that you tell me? why where the patrols centered around County to Chestnut??
The community was warned about the crackdown. Folks who didn’t care drove with snow on their cars, talked on cell phones, ran traffic lights and stop signs etc. Why be surprised at all the violations cited? You knew they were having a crackdown on driving violations.
Whether the crackdown accomplishes anything or not, the fact that they time it specifically for when Shabbos I over, when the fatalities did not involve people from the community is strange.