Cold case investigations "are very personnel intensive, so you really need people who are dedicated to that," said acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert Laurino.
There's nothing stopping a registered sex offender from opening the door for your kid on Halloween — at least in New Jersey. So it's up to you, the parents, to keep children away from the riskier homes.
"It's a game-changer," Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor's office, told New Jersey 101.5. "What it now does for us is gives us access to intel beyond our borders."
Security at a military charity race on Sept. 16 will quadruple the safeguards in place at last year's event where a bomb exploded inside a trash can along the route.
Several school districts have signed on to a program, announced Wednesday by the county prosecutor's office, that can provide law enforcement with complete blueprints of school grounds, right down to the smallest closet.
Under a state law adopted 30 years ago, drug dealers and everyone in the drug "chain" are held criminally responsible for deaths resulting from the controlled dangerous substances they've made or distributed.