New Jersey County Scraps "Gun Court": Essex County's top judge has
scrapped a four-year-old program to crack down on chronic gun
offenders in Newark, saying there was no evidence it did anything to
curb crime. State Superior Court Assignment Judge Patricia Costello
said she no longer saw the benefit of setting aside a judge,
prosecutors and probation officers to handle the city's gun-possession
cases because the only verifiable result was higher bails.
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scrapped a four-year-old program to crack down on chronic gun
offenders in Newark, saying there was no evidence it did anything to
curb crime. State Superior Court Assignment Judge Patricia Costello
said she no longer saw the benefit of setting aside a judge,
prosecutors and probation officers to handle the city's gun-possession
cases because the only verifiable result was higher bails.
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