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This is a police issue. Please call the non-police number at 201-547-5477 while these people are doing this. You can also report this issue on the WOTS app or you can go to the South District precinct.

Should you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach me at 201-547-4900 or icruz@jcnj.org; Monday - Friday 9am-4:30pm

I was personally asked to post this on here by Council Person Denise Ridley. I obviously can not call the non-police Police Number at the time it is happening, as I am not present to watch every littering addict that flows up the block.

We need police walking around this area!!

The best I can do is contact the Community Relations Officer for the South District to make her aware of the issue however you are still encouraged to contact the police using the number and/or app I provided for you as this is a police issue and police cannot be sent there if they are not aware of what is happening when it is happening.

Please feel free to contact me with any other questions or concerns. I can be reached at 201-547-4900 or icruz@jcnj.org in addition to reaching out to me on here.

I have contacted your Community Relations Officer and will provide an update as soon as I get a response.

So, I took your advice and called the non-police police number and reported my complaint to them, and they told me that If I see a person dropping their drug vials on the street, that I should call them then and they will send some one out to tell that person to not do it again. Otherwise, Nothing they can do about the drug paraphernalia littering the street on a daily basis.

I will provide this information to the Community Relations Officer.

In addition, I recommend you continue to call the non-emergency police number when this is happening. I understand you are not present every single time someone is doing this however if and when you do.

CORRECTION:
I will provide this information to the Community Relations Officer.

In addition, I recommend you continue to call the non-emergency police number when this is happening. I understand you are not present every single time someone is doing this however if and when you do see something please contact the police.

The police won't walk this area espically the new guys. They are scared & on their phones all day.
Shea should track that to see the amount of time they use their phones while on "duty"

Mark, we are having the SAME problem over on Woodlawn and Armstrong Avenue. Open air drug sales and use. Dealers selling openly. Vials and baggies everywhere. All while having to pay substantially increased property taxes. Police Non-emergency contacted, WOTS app used (this app is useless), pleading for help here, contacting Ward A Councilwoman. Something HAS to be done. Foot patrols and parked cruisers are desperately needed. I’ll be watching the status of your complaint in hopes that it will help ours!

I agree, there is to many people hanging out in front of that liquor store. Many of them are substance abuser. The police pass by everyday and they don't do anything about it. There is a precinct just 4 blocks away in Bergen Avenue.

Ivette, the person who trained you for your job missed a few things. You give the confidential NARCOTICS squad phone number for this kind of problem. Never tell them to go to the district, to the comunity relations person or to the patrol/desk number. They do not take care of this.

@Cosmo,

Please give me a call when you have a chance, I think a conversation can help clear things up a bit. I work Monday-Friday 9am-4:30pm. I will be out of the office in a few but I can be reached this afternoon or you can leave me a a message and I will get back to you.

I hope to hear from you soon.

I agree with you all especially queen! We should all call Denise Ridley at the same time :

phone(201) 547 5098
phone(201) 547 5060
fax(201) 547 4678
280 Grove Street
Room 202
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Directions
DRidley@jcnj.org

Please note the narcotics squad as been contacted via phone and email regarding this issue. Should you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to reopen this case and/or contact me at 201-547-4900 or icruz@jcnj.org; Monday-Friday 9am-4:30pm.

Ivette Cruz - Please stop "Closing" this as if it were resolved. Placing a call to narcotics or sending an email has not resolved anything and this complaint should remain "OPEN" until something has actually happened to warrant its closing.

@Wilson Cruz - - It is beyond me how a liquor store can be open in the middle of a residential neighborhood without any other commercial / retail around for blocks and blocks. What is open near this Liquor store are Schools, churches and the police station - - Otherwise it is all residential, and we are the ones left suffering the garbage (both literally and figuratively) that this liquor store attracts and creates.

I have requested narcotics to let me know when this issue has been resolved. This will remain open until I receive an update from them.

Thank you Ivette Cruz. I appreciate your help very much!

I can totally understand what is happening around here. I'm in the middle of this battle as well. Yes, the same issue was part of my complaints from 208 and 211 Van Nostrand Avenue houses. Drug business is in every day. They just moved the market to the corner at MLK... Yes, the first answer is: "go to the prencint and tell them"..."Keep calling when you see".... However, never, ever in my life I have seen a single police comming after maybe 15 minutes of a call (it's already late) but, please understand that the Police Precint is 5 minutes away from these streets only. Nobody appears. Sadly I can say that, this is the Land of Nobody.

Seems to be under control

It seems but, is not....

Residents,

I don't know if it's still an issue unless you tell me. The police/narcotics squad does not provide me an update. Please describe what issues are still occurring and I will try to send someone out again.

Ivette Cruz, NOTHING has happened - - The drug vials are on the side walk every day. The liquor bottles are on the sidewalk every day. The drug dealers are on the corners every day, and the percent is just a few blocks away from me. Perhaps the fact that you are not provided an update reflects the fact that NOTHING has changed or happened.

It's a joke. U need to call JCPD 201 547 5477 DIRECT CONSTANTLY WHEN U SEE THIS GOING ON. You need to give descriptions of who it is & where they are!

So, after 3 months we received the same response "call the police"????!!!!
This is unbelievable....!!!! A waste of time/money/resources for everyone...
We just know that Narcotics, hasn't done anything... Police, doesn't handle cases like this... so, we are living in the Land of Nobody...That it's a joke! Nobody can really do ANYTHING...

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Please note I have reached out to narcotics again as well as the community relations officer for your district and the Captain for your district as well.

If you can talk to Officer Lamboy in the South, she is very nice and helpful.

Closed due to this being a police matter. Narcotics has been informed. Should it become an issue again, please report on the WOTs (word on the street) app which is monitored directly by the police.